Once Hungary kindly arranged a peaceful end to the Cold War, the politics of all Western countries, including Japan and including the newly Western countries of the former “Eastern Europe”, have been
The publication of the manifesto in September by the former Czech president, Václav Klaus, and signed by various European politicians and academics, which criticised an article by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the German Green Member of the European Parliament, was not
INTRODUCTION For much of the twentieth century, it was widely accepted in liberal circles that America is the blueprint for the future of other countries. England was treated as a
Where does Europe end? The question of boundary has been discussed for quite some time. It is an old one indeed, going back to the destruction of the Jewish temple,
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himselfaccording to the outcome, he would never begin.Even though the result may gladden the wholeworld, that cannot help the hero; for
MY WORK AT THE PREMIER’S OFFICE BEGINS Having obtained my two doctor’s diplomas, during the next fourteen years I spent most of my time outside Hungary, first in post-graduate studies
Zoltán Álgya-Pap was the only Hungarian general in the Second World War who received the coveted gold medal for extraordinary courage in face of enemy fire. Like most of the country’s military by 1944, his troops were dispirited, sick of the war and the
A LIFE SPENT ON SHORT WAVE You have to be totally devoid of common sense not to believe in mystery. Mystery is there every step we take, literally under our
AB: In the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, the official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, there is no mention of the name of Miklós Radnóti. The great Hungarian
Look – night is falling and dusk is absorbing the wild oak fence, edged with barbed wire, the hut’s so floating. A slow stare lets the frame of our bondage
If we accept that the message of a tale cannot be treated independently of the world view underlying it, we may as well specify the particular world view in which
Once upon a time, a very long time ago, far beyond the end of the world, I saddled a nag, leapt upon her back and rode into the forest. I
Translated from the Hungarian by Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri NOCTURNE Blue-black, the night sky. Bushes stand guard at the roadside. The trees’ chained shadows bay like far-off dogs. Life
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