MÁNDY, Iván

 

  • MÁNDY, Iván: What was left
    • Webpage von  MÁNDY, Iván
    • Übersetzt von: John Bátki
    • Verlag: NORAN Kiadó Bt.
    • Veröffentlichungsjahr: 1999
    • Nummer von Seiten: 160
    • Sprache: English
    • Iván Mándy (1918-1995) created one of the most original oeuvres in 20th century Hungarian fiction. The stories written in the first half of his career have become classics of the genre, recalling Chekhov and Salinger. From the 1970s on Mándy’s writing, borrowing techniques from the radio play and the cinema, have projected scenes from the narrator’s mindscapes, catching memory and desire in the act, capturing states of mind in the process of becoming, strange and familiar voices arising from the near and distant past, erasing the tenous boundaries between dreaming and waking, past and present. The dozen stories and novellas in What was left have been selected from four collections of Iván Mándy’s fiction published between 1972 and 1992. In them, starting from the material things of everyday life, transcending the realm of the rational and, like his beloved Buster Keaton, approaching other dimensions in the hierarchy of being, Iván Mándy works his quiet, enigmatic and preposterous charme.
  • MÁNDY, Iván: Fabulya’s Wives and Other Stories
    • Webpage von  MÁNDY, Iván
    • Übersetzt von: John Bátki
    • Verlag: CORVINA Kiadó
    • Veröffentlichungsjahr: 1999
    • Nummer von Seiten: 192
    • Sprache: English
    • Iván Mándy (1918-1995) was the Hungarian Academy’s nominee for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993. His oeuvre of fiction and radio plays ranges from short stories focusing on the "little people" forced to the "sidelines" of existence to the more disembodied texts where the objects of everyday urban life speak to us in human voices. His texts emerge as authentic visions, documents of the human condition, universal in their validity and appeal. Fabulya’s Wives, originally published in 1959, is a picaresque tale about an unforgettable bohemian and the entanglements of his business and amorous affairs in the Budapest of the early Fifties. The accompanying stories from the cycle Lecturers, Ghost-Writers (1970) offer glimpses of the same set of characters in their tragicomic struggles to survive with dignity intact while destitute and downtrodden in the totalitarian squalor of the early 1950’s when Stalinism ruled Budapest.

 

 

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