DEZSŐ TANDORI
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1967 Töredék Hamletnek (et. Fragment for Hamlet) Poetry reduced to its
most essential components while focusing on existence and vital emotions.
1973 Egy talált tárgy megtisztítása (et. Cleansing of a Found Object)
Poems. A wide range of themes and formal experimentation, the first
postmodern collection in Hungary.
1977 Itt éjszaka koalák járnak (et. Koalas Pass Here at Night) Stories.
1981 Az erősebb lét közelében (et. Near a Stronger Existence) Essays
on poetry and poetics.
1988 Meghalni késő, élni túl korán (Too Late to Die, Too Early to Live)
Novel.
1991 Koppar Köldüs (Koppenhagen, Paris, Köln, Düsseldorf) Poems. The
title plays a pun on the words 'barren beggar'.
1995 Madárzsoké (et. Bird-jockey) Prose.
1996 Evidenciatörténetek (et. Stories of Evidence) A deeply personal
book, a kind of a diary, with miscellaneous writings - puns, quotations,
wordplay, anecdotes and notes on poems, sparrows, music, teddy-bears,
horses, lonely wanderings and suicide. As the jacket says: "If
you are happy to be alive, your life must be much less than happy"
(Dezső Tandori)
1997 Kész és félkész katasztrófák (et. Rough and Ready) A sequel to
the
previous book, this is again a funny, philosophical and deeply tragic
account on a lonely and exceptional man. Like the previous diary, this
book is filled with Tandori's unusual, enigmatic drawings. On the flap,
Tandori gives an explanation to the title: "If today's rough and
ready, be ready for tomorrow. It'll be rough."
1997 A vízre írt név (et. The Name Writ on Water) Drawings.
1998 Vér és virághab (et. Blood and Flower Foam) Novel.
1998 Mr. & Tandori. Drawings.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
Birds and Other Relations. Selected Poems (bilingual edition,
translated
by Bruce Berlind) - Princeton, 1986.
selected poems in:
Ocean at the Window, ed. Albert Tezla (Minnesota UP, Minneapolis, 1980).
The Colonnade of Teeth. Modern Hungarian Poetry, edited
by George Gömöri
and George Szirtes, Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1996.
"Please Forgive Me". Introduction to The Smell
of Humans, a memoir of
the Holocaust in Hungary by Ernő Szép, tr. by John Bátki, CEU Press,
1994.
Selected short stories in:
Auteurs hongrois d'aujourd'hui.
Paris: In fine and Budapest: Corvina, 1996.
Stafette. Prose and poetry, tr. by Ch. Rácz. Wieser, Klagenfurt,
1994.
Langer Sarg in aller Kuerze. Evidenzgeschichten tr. by
Hans-Henning Paetzke.
Zürich : Ammann, 1997.
Startlampe ohne Bahn. Tr. by Christine Racz - Graz ;
Wien - Literaturverl. Droschl, 1994
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