... here, “he would have to look back on his biography from after death” — and in this piece he hauntingly does so. Explaining that he composed his first autobiography upon being expelled from university in Hungary after Stalin's death in 1953, he defines the process as “the main event in the ritual...

.... Written in Hungarian not long before his death in 2019, Konrád goes back in this essay to the period following the arrest of his parents after the German invasion of Hungary. Aged eleven, he was able to escape the small town where he was born—and hence the fate of its entire Jewish community. “The others...

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... and ; Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765   Habsburgs, the and Hungary as president vice senior of the John Simon Guggenheim...

.... No longer is any of this the doing of outside circumstances but only the result of Hungary’s, of our society’s own, autonomous and independent activity. And if the question arises what business that is of mine, then I shall have to look around...

...George Szirtes C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 3 6 2 László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim s Homecoming, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (New York: New Directions, 2019), 576 pp. Baron Wenckheim s Homecoming is a return to the terrain, cast list, and motifs of Krasznahorkai s earlier Hungary- based books...

..., coauthor, or editor of twenty books. 181 László F. Földényi, well known in Hungary and Germany as a philosopher and art critic, is 182 the author of books on Lukács, Goya, and Caspar David...

..., after in Liberated Hungary, to Zeitz. he returned then Buchenwaldto and taken he was there, from Auschwitz; to deported he was ofage fifteen, the At Budapest. in 1929, in born was family a Jewish into Kertész (Calcutta: SeagullBooks, 2011),78pp. Imre Kertész, TheHolocaustasCulture...

... An theHabsburgs, and Hungary introductionbyan Sontag. Susan with Nádas Péter theof Ordinary Recounting Philosophy’s Cavell: Stanley...

... the World Wars, in Eastern and Central Europe—in Russia, Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland— due to a set of intersecting cultural determinations and institutional factors.5 Before specifying those determinations and factors, I ought to recapitulate the contribution of Eastern and Central Europe to later...

... on Contributors Notes Looking for a Clue, Detective Story, The British Flag, and Gallery-Diary, 1961–1991. Tim Wilkinson is the translator of Éva Balázs’s book Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765–1800: An Experiment in Enlightened Absolutism and of Ignác Romsics’s study Hungary in the Twentieth Century. Joseph...

...- tion by Susan Sontag. Tim Wilkinson is the translator of Éva Balázs’s book Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765–1800: An Experiment in Enlightened Absolutism and Ignác Romsics’s study Hungary in the Twentieth Century. Richard Newhauser, currently...

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... capitalism and open markets, lib- eral democracy and NATO. In this novel environment, new opportunities have been made possible by the liberal-democratic game, and those politicians most inclined to exploit the opportunities—whether former dissidents such as Vik- tor Orbán in Hungary and Václav Klaus...

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