Category: VOLUME II, No. 2

The film was followed by a few moments of silence that felt like an eternity in the crowded Uránia theatre. Only afterwards was there applause, but subdued and careful, as if for lack of a better response the viewers who had assembled for the premier had felt compelled, out of

The Furniture Designers of Hungarian Art Nouveau As Anna Lesznai writes in her book The Garden of Eden (1918), “Where we stood, time was not passing,Thus our encounter became everlasting.” At that time György Lukács considered the artist, decorator and writer Anna Lesznai someone who lived as one with the universe, in

An Essay on Language In his book Jenseits von Gut und Böse, Friedrich Nietzsche claims that “the people native to the Ural-Altaic language region (where the concept of the subject is the most rudimentary) are very likely to look at the world differently and discover different modes and manners for themselves

In September 1948 the famous poet Paul Éluard, perhaps the brightest star among the French Communist Party intellectuals, toured Central Europe. He visited Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where I met him when he visited the class in which we were familiarising ourselves with the secrets of the French language. Éluard was

But listen to the end… Then nothing more… It changes its meaning. (Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus) Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon… (Wallace Stevens) For me Charon’s Ferry, Bruce Berlind’s beautiful translations of Gyula Illyés’ poetry, is also a remarkable selection of last poems. Why call them “last poems”

A Selection of Poems by Gyula Illyés, Translated by Bruce Berlind The gardens are afloat in water, the small village a peninsula now. And the deluge increases. We’ve done what it’s possible for man to do. It’s black as pitch outside, not a star shines through. Whatever’s to be done

Gergely Romsics: Nép, nemzet, birodalom. A Habsburg Birodalom emlékezete a német, osztrák és magyar történetpolitikai gondolkodásban 1918–1941 (People, Nation, Empire. The Memory of the Habsburg Empire in German, Austrian, and Hungarian Historiography and Political Thinking, 1918–1941).Budapest, Új Mandátum, 2010. 465 pp. (Habsburg Historical Monographs, 9.)ISBN 978-963-276-040-7 Almost immediately after the fall of