If you want to know the people around you, find out what they read.– Stalin on reading [I]t is nothing but an illusion, but its laws are dictated by life.– Stalin on performance In the 1930s, while a political exile in Kazakhstan – during what Anna Akhmatova might have called a vegetarian, rather
Books Re-vised Nem a való hát: annak égi másaLesz, amitől függ az ének varázsa… The song itself is not what matters most; it has a heavenly otherfrom which the magic descends. JÁNOS ARANY (1817–82) Nem a való hát: annak égi mássaLesz, amitől függ az ének varázsa… The song itself is
CHAPTER TWELVE: The defencelessness of the girls. The morals of the puszta. The conquerors The daughter of one of our nearby neighbours committed suicide. Male farm servants who are weary of life normally put an end to it by hanging themselves, the women and girls by jumping into a well.
A Classic Hungarian Essay What is poetry? Humankind spoke in verse before it spoke in prose. When the first human opened its eyes in the cradle, which was the entire planet earth, it cried out in amazement that it had been born into this world, burbling rhythmic words of passion,
NT: Please tell me first where you are setting out for in the morning. IF: There are some hard tours we do, but this is the opposite. A light summer excursion – three concerts, two lovely cities in northern Italy, Brescia and Bergamo, which are comfortably close to each other, so there’s
We should give our children roots and wings – according to Goethe – but this is exactly what my generation, the children of Socialism, did not receive. Roots were not important, since we were fed internationalism in place of a patriotic upbringing, and instead of being given wings, we were
Remembrance of a Garden of Szepesség The New Sans Souci garden fell out of use some two-hundred years ago, yet its unusual history and charm, vivid in historical memory to this day, may well explain why it has retained a more prominent place in the cultural history of the region
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