Publisher:
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson
This book contains the complete poems in Hungarian and in English translation of Hungary's great modern poet, Miklos Radnoti, murdered at the age of 35 during the Holocaust. His earliest poems, the six books published during his lifetime, and the...
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This book contains the complete poems in Hungarian and in English translation of Hungary's great modern poet, Miklos Radnoti, murdered at the age of 35 during the Holocaust. His earliest poems, the six books published during his lifetime, and the poems published posthumously after World War II are included. There is a foreword by Gyozo Ferencz, one of Hungary's foremost experts on Radnoti's poems, and accompanying essays by the author on dominant themes and recurring images, as well as the relevance of Radnoti's work to Holocaust literature
Cover; Table of Contents; Translator's Acknowledgments; Foreword by Gyozo Ferencz; Introduction; Pogány köszöntő/Pagan Salute (1930); Újmódi pásztorok éneke/Song of Modern Shepherds (1931); Lábadozó szél/Convalescent Wind (1933); Újhold/New Moon (1935); Járkálj csak, halálraítélt!/March On, Condemned! (1936); Meredek út/Steep Road (1938); Naptár/Calendar (1942); Tajtékos ég/Frothy Sky (1946); Zsengék/Miscellaneous Poems(1925-1929); Kötetbe nem sorolt és hátrahagyott versek/Miscellaneous Poems (1930-1944); Tréfás versek/Incidental Poems (1938-1943)
Appendix A: On Translatingthe Poems of RadnótiAppendix B: A Chronology of Radnóti's Life and Times; Appendix C: A Brief Historyof Anti-Semitism in Hungary; Source Notes; Bibliography; English Titles Index; Hungarian Titles Index; Hungarian First Lines Index; General Index