Category: VOLUME VI, No. 2

FERENC PULSZKY

One of the most interesting figures of Hungary’s 19th century, Ferenc Pulszky was born in Eperjes on 17 September 1814 and died on 9 September 1897 in Budapest. He was a politician, a writer and a scholar: a man of multiple talents and of encyclopaedic knowledge. Eperjes in the 19th

NOTES TO ‘THE PASSION AT RAVENSBRÜCK’

One steps clear of the others, stands in a block of silence, still. The prison garb, the convict’s scalp blink like an old film-reel. Fearful to be a self alone: the pores are visible, with everything around so huge and everything so small. And that was it. As for the

REMBRANDT AND THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE – EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

In 2006, the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts ran an exhibition titled El Greco, Velázquez, Goya: Five Centuries of Spanish Masterpieces, as the first instalment in a series designed to offer a comprehensive insight into some of the grand periods and schools of European painting, building on the core pieces

OUR AUTHORS

GYÖRGY ÁKOS BÁLINT, poet journalist and lawyer. While still a student in law, he was arrested with his father by the Gestapo on 22 March 1944, to be transferred in April to the internment camp of Kistarcsa, where he was detained until September. His book Sziget a mérgezett tengerben [An