Attila Bartis
(b.1968) has published three novels: A séta [The stroll] Budapest: József Attila Kör 1995, published in German translation as Der Spaziergang, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1999; A kékl? pára [The bluish haze] Budapest: Magvetö 1998; and, A nyugalom [Resting], Budapest: Magvetö 2001, published in German as Die Ruhe, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2005. The latter has been adapted for stage and film.
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Resting
An excerpt
Attila Bartis's Resting (2001) portrays a consciousness for which "rest" is unattainable. Both private psychodrama and portrait of the end of the Communist era, the novel is one of the darkest to have emerged from contemporary Hungarian literature. [more]





