The Asylum Appeals of Ferenc B. Farkas and Judith Maléter in November 19561 During the days of the Revolution of 1956 and the weeks following the Russian attack on 4 November, the heads of most diplomatic missions accredited to Hungary probably felt something similar to what Walther Peinsipp, the Austrian
[H]is reproachful eyes caressed and gnawed me from his portrait.(From Mandelshtam’s Voronezh Notebooks) For many years the existence of Osip Mandelshtam’s “Ode to Stalin” was in doubt. With the publication of Nadezhda Mandelshtam’s Hope Against Hope, this doubt was resolved and the “Ode” became better known, though often indirectly through
1 Were I to work in charcoal that would draw the highest praise –my ode to joy – its silent oscillation –I’d draw in cunning angles –anxiously, uneasily –the present in the lines would answer,and art border on audacityto picture him who honours cultures of one hundredforty nations while he
TONY BRINKLEY (Pittsburgh, 1948) is a Professor of English at the University of Maine. He has translated extensively modern Russian, German and French poetry. His poetry and translations have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, The New Review of Literature, Cerise Press, Drunken Boat, Shofar, May Day, World
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