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Towards The One & Only Metaphor
Unique in Hungarian literature, at the time of its first appearance in 1935, Towards the One & Only Metaphor was greeted with plaudits by such leading Hungarian critics as LΓ‘szlΓ³ NΓ©meth, AndrΓ‘s...
View ArticleReview: Szentkuthy
βWith [Towards the One & Only Metaphor], the second of Szentkuthyβs works made available in English by Contra Mundum Press, afterΒ Marginalia on Casanova, the author begins to take on more of a...
View ArticleSzentkuthy: TLS Review
βIn the first pages of a notebook he kept in the summer of 1934, MiklΓ³s Szentkuthy lies sweating in bed. He stares at βthe lathes of the roller blindsβ in his bedroom, the spreading βmilky-blue leavesβ...
View ArticleTo Humanize and Dehumanize
Imitation, True Contrasts, and the Faustian Pact: On Szentkuthyβs Towards the One & Only Metaphor Β When MiklΓ³s Szentkuthy publishedΒ PraeΒ in 1934 at the sprightly age of 26, the novel was deemed to...
View ArticleSzentkuthy: Best Book of 2013!
Β The best paperback books of 2013 Β From Marginalia on Casanova to Philip Terryβs tapestry, Nicholas Lezard round up the best paperbacks of the year Β βThe year began with a bang for meΒ with the...
View ArticleGenuinely Different
βIβve turned this book over in my head many times and Iβm mostly still at a loss. I havenβt read a book so unlike anything else in some time. Hungarian author MiklΓ³s Szentkuthy (1908-1988) wrote the...
View ArticleThe Only True Luxury
David Van Dusen reviews Marginalia on Casanova: βSzentkuthyβs βcommentaryβ is possibly better classified as a novel; he himself considered it the first volume of Szentkuthyβs recherchΓ©, pan-European...
View ArticleEntering the World Stage: Szentkuthyβs Ars Poetica
βAs a text that defies classification into any particular genre,Β Towards the One and Only MetaphorΒ is perhaps most accurately thought of asliteratureβin Blanchotβs expansive sense of the term,...
View ArticleMasks Behind Masks
AndrΓ‘s Nagyβs portrait of Szentkuthy in The Berlin Review of Books: Β βThe mask in general is an important part of the identity of the personality; paradoxically it may be even a synonym for it as the...
View ArticleAn odd, fascinating book
M.A. Orthofer on Marginalia on Casanova: βMarginalia on CasanovaΒ is an odd, fascinating book β a philosophical work, but also one of interpretation, in several layers, from eras and context, to...
View ArticleRococo Jungle
Ottilie Mulzet on Marginalia on Casanova: β. . . in his endless self-interruptions, Szentkuthy uncannily almost seems like an earlier incarnation of PΓ©ter EsterhΓ‘zy (even in his copious use of...
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