Category: VOLUME III, No. 1

THE INCONVENIENT GRAND SEIGNEUR

Memory of Miklós Bánffy I. THE INCONVENIENT GRAND SEIGNEUR The Memory of Miklós Bánffy1 If there were a single word to describe the life and afterlife of the author of the monumental A Transylvanian Trilogy, “inconvenient” would certainly best epitomize both the man and the writer. He was the scion

THE TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY

A passage from Book I. – They Were Counted Balint spent the next few days in seeing that he had everything he would need for a winter trip to the mountains. He was fairly well provided, having spent a year in Stockholm where winter sports were beginning to be all

‘HE GAVE A SWISH OF HIS ARM’ – AND IN GERMAN?

Thoughts on the German Translation of They Were Counted I should perhaps begin where the story itself began for me. It is worth a line or two, not so much for my sake as for the sake of Miklós Bánffy. Or to be more precise, for the sake of his

THE LEGEND OF THE PALETTE OF MIKLÓS BÁNFFY

I have often been asked how and why I organized the travelling exhibition on the life and work of Miklós Bánffy. Depending on my mood at the time, I explained more or less rationally what had taken place and how. Then after awhile I too began to wonder, what had

BRANCUSI AT HOME

A wooden house in a garden of mulberry trees, with a deep well for a summer’s day, a stone path over the lawn, and outhouses packed to the brim with corn-cobs. There is also an assortment of outhouses, barns and sheds with old farm implements and cartwheels attached to the