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Magyar Lettre Internationale 72 (2009)
72 (2009)
Lengyel Péter
Lengyel Péterrel Barna Imre beszélgetett
Figyeljétek a mesélő embert
Listen to the story teller
Imre Barna, director of Europe Publishing House, with the writer Peter Lengyel, the author of Cobblestone, a novel about fin de siecle Budapest
Imre Barna, director of Europe Publishing House, with the writer Peter Lengyel, the author of Cobblestone, a novel about fin de siecle Budapest
A fikció dicsérete
In praise of fiction
Miért jobb, ha a regények hazudnak?
Why is it better if the novels lie?
Talk at the 2008 Berlin Literature Festival
Talk at the 2008 Berlin Literature Festival
Káin intelme
Cains admonition
An essay-novella, a militant reinterpretation of the Bible
An essay-novella, a militant reinterpretation of the Bible
Readme.cc szerzők a lettre-ben
Excerpts from fiction by authors taking part in the European literary project readme.cc
Utazás éjjel
A journey in the night
Természet
Nature
Rablókéz
Robber's hands
A szép fattyú
The nice bastard
Grand Hotel
A regény a tolerancia magasiskolája
The novel is a school of tolerance
An interview with Milan Kundera, made by Branka Bogovac in 1981 in Paris
An interview with Milan Kundera, made by Branka Bogovac in 1981 in Paris
Ad acta
Mindig más partokra vágyik
Any beach but this
Named "discovery of the year" at the prestigious Magnesia Litera awards.
Named "discovery of the year" at the prestigious Magnesia Litera awards.
Fedőneve: Kalapács - Jarka beszervezése önkéntes rendőrspiclinek (kórkép 1987-ből)
The Recruiting of Jarka, Code Name Hammer, as Voluntary Police Informer (A Patho-Biography 1987)
Published in English in Common Knowledge
Published in English in Common Knowledge
Máris elfelejtődött
Already forgotten
A story by the Hungarian writer living in Tirgu Mures, Romania, told from the perspective of a mole
A story by the Hungarian writer living in Tirgu Mures, Romania, told from the perspective of a mole
Szerda dél
Wednesday noon
Greek immigrants in Hungary in the early 1950s fall foul of a cultural and culinary misunderstanding. English translation available
Greek immigrants in Hungary in the early 1950s fall foul of a cultural and culinary misunderstanding. English translation available
Európai Elsőkönyvesek
European first novelists
Extracts from the novels of the participants of the 9th European First Novel Festival in Budapest, also available in English
Andrew Nicoll brit, Marie-Christine Weiner francia, Vincenzo Latronico olasz, Jara Santamaría Cebolledo spanyol, Joao Tordo portugál, Rachida Lamrabet belga, Benedict Wells német, Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker osztrák, Janni Olesen dán, Inga ®olude lett, Sylwia Chutnik lengyel, Markéta Pilátová cseh, Inge Hrubanicová szlovák, Gabriela Babnik szlovén, Adela Greceanu román, Evgenia Ivanova bolgár, Maąa Kolanović horvát, Vincze Ferenc magyar
Román kaleidoszkóp
Romanian kaleidoscope
A dossier in the Spring issue of the Hungarian Lettre containing contemporary Romanian essays, fiction and poetry. Published with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute on the occasion of Romania's role as guest of honour country at the Budapest International Book Festival, 23-27 April 2009
Románia örök
Romania eterna
First published in Dilema Veche 248 (2008)
First published in Dilema Veche 248 (2008)
A Kósza gondolatok könyvéből
The Book of Roaming Thoughts (excerpt)
First published int he Romanian Lettre
First published int he Romanian Lettre
A huligán visszatérése
Addresses from the past
A chapter from the book The Hooligan's Return
A chapter from the book The Hooligan's Return
Történetek a közvetlen irrealitásban
Stories in the immediate irreality
Excerpt from the novel published in the mid-1920s
Excerpt from the novel published in the mid-1920s
A Coriolanus utca (Koszta Gabriella ford.)
A chapter from the novel Wasted Morning
A painful symbol of a Romania sacrificed on the altar of two world wars and communism. Although these sinister spectres obsess the author, she displays a picturesque, highly vital style, re-inventing the idiom of simple folk and discovering the poetry of the street, in a country where the wooden tongue had grown into a coffin of imagination.
A painful symbol of a Romania sacrificed on the altar of two world wars and communism. Although these sinister spectres obsess the author, she displays a picturesque, highly vital style, re-inventing the idiom of simple folk and discovering the poetry of the street, in a country where the wooden tongue had grown into a coffin of imagination.
Bécs ostroma
Excerpt from the novel The Siege of Vienna
A fresco of Transylvania after the Second World War, from the period of triumphal communism to the chaos of post-revolutionary transition -- a novel of Central-European nostalgias, of the decay of a world with aristocratic roots.
A fresco of Transylvania after the Second World War, from the period of triumphal communism to the chaos of post-revolutionary transition -- a novel of Central-European nostalgias, of the decay of a world with aristocratic roots.
Mircea Cartarescu és a transznacionális román irodalom
Romanian literature beyond the nation. Mircea Cartarescu's Europeanism and Cosmopolitanism
First published in English in World Literature Today, July-August, 2006
First published in English in World Literature Today, July-August, 2006
Aki utolsónak alszik el (Lövétei Lázár László ford.)
An excerpt from the novel Whoever falls asleep last
A realist/fantastic mélange tracing a century in the life of a village on the Danube Plain.
A realist/fantastic mélange tracing a century in the life of a village on the Danube Plain.
Libakeresés
Looking for geese
A short story from the volume The Other Love Stories, about the narrators' childhood adventure with his grandfather while searching for the geese stolen by the Gypsies at the edge of their village.
A short story from the volume The Other Love Stories, about the narrators' childhood adventure with his grandfather while searching for the geese stolen by the Gypsies at the edge of their village.
Kölykök
Excerpt from the novel The Băiuţ Alley Lads
The aberrations of the ideology and way of life imposed by communism are refracted through the prism of childish naivety, which accentuates their absurdity and grotesqueness
The aberrations of the ideology and way of life imposed by communism are refracted through the prism of childish naivety, which accentuates their absurdity and grotesqueness
Romaniada
A review of the novel Children's Crusade by Florina Ilis
A gyermekek keresztesháborúja
Excerpt from the novel Children's Crusade
Pizdec
Excerpt from the novel of the young Moldovan-Romanian writer about young people in Kishiniev
Utóférfiak (Selyem Zsuzsa ford.)
Post-males
Excerpt from the forthcoming book Birth of Liquid Desires. Post-males
Excerpt from the forthcoming book Birth of Liquid Desires. Post-males
Kommentárok, viták
Commentaries, disussions
Ideológia, propaganda és relativizmus
Ideology, propaganda and relativism
Essay by the recent director of the Romanian Cultural Institute, pointing at the parallels between communist and postmodernist, postcommunist relativism
Essay by the recent director of the Romanian Cultural Institute, pointing at the parallels between communist and postmodernist, postcommunist relativism
Barátom Ivasiuc
My friend Ivasiuc
Portrait of an eastern European intellectual that can be read as a contribution to the Kundera-debate. First published in the Romanian Lettre
Portrait of an eastern European intellectual that can be read as a contribution to the Kundera-debate. First published in the Romanian Lettre
Naplójegyzetek (2008 március - december)
Diary notes (March-December 2008)
Reflections on the Kundera debate, first published in the Romanian Lettre
Reflections on the Kundera debate, first published in the Romanian Lettre
Mi az, hogy le van leplezve?
Tudósítások
Correspondences
A román kultúrára odafigyelnek Svédországban
There is an interest for Romanian culture in Sweden
An interview with the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm
An interview with the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm
Interjúja Cristian Mungiuval
An interview with the Romanian film director and Cannes prizewinner Cristian Mungiu made by Brindusa Armanca director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest
Román írók, román irodalom
Romanian writers, Romanian literature
A short summary of trends and tendencies in contemporary Romanian fiction, drama and poetry written by the young Hungarian writer and journalist from Cluj, Romania
A short summary of trends and tendencies in contemporary Romanian fiction, drama and poetry written by the young Hungarian writer and journalist from Cluj, Romania
Balota az erdélyi magyar irodalomról
On Hungarian literature in Transylvania
Versek
Poetry
Képek
Images
Szabó Benke Róbert munkáit bemutatja Tatai Erzsébet
Diana Apetroaie fotói (www.contraste.ro) a 2008-as évfolyam tartalomjegyzéke
Tavaszi Lettre-napok
2009. április 26-án, vasárnap 10 órakor a Millenárison a Hess András teremben
Háy János, Láng Zsolt, Selyem Zsuzsa, Szabó T. Anna
Háy János, Láng Zsolt, Selyem Zsuzsa, Szabó T. Anna
2009. április 27-én, hétfőn
16 órakor az Írók Boltjában a Lettre, a Látó, a Korunk és a Székelyföld
szerzői és szerkesztői az erdélyi magyar és román irodalomról
16 órakor az Írók Boltjában a Lettre, a Látó, a Korunk és a Székelyföld
szerzői és szerkesztői az erdélyi magyar és román irodalomról
18 órakor a Román Kulturális Intézetben (XIV. Izsó u. 5.)
Gabriela Adameşteanu, Ruxandra Cesareanu, Florina Ilis, Lucian Teodorovici
Gabriela Adameşteanu, Ruxandra Cesareanu, Florina Ilis, Lucian Teodorovici
2009. május 15-én, pénteken 16 órakor
Lettre-kerekasztal az egzotizálásról a Szimbiózis-napokon
Lettre-kerekasztal az egzotizálásról a Szimbiózis-napokon
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