An odd, fascinating book
M.A. Orthofer on Marginalia on Casanova: “Marginalia on Casanova is an odd, fascinating book — a philosophical work, but also one of interpretation, in several layers, from eras and context, to...
View ArticleMasks Behind Masks
András Nagy’s portrait of Szentkuthy in The Berlin Review of Books: “The 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 ArticleEntering the World Stage: Szentkuthy’s Ars Poetica
“As a text that defies classification into any particular genre, Towards the One and Only Metaphor is perhaps most accurately thought of asliterature—in Blanchot’s expansive sense of the term,...
View ArticleThe Only True Luxury
David Van Dusen reviews Marginalia on Casanova: “Szentkuthy’s “commentary” is possibly better classified as a novel; he himself considered it the first volume of Szentkuthy’s recherché, pan-European...
View ArticleGenuinely Different
“I’ve turned this book over in my head many times and I’m mostly still at a loss. I haven’t read a book so unlike anything else in some time. Hungarian author Miklós Szentkuthy (1908-1988) wrote the...
View ArticleSzentkuthy: Best Book of 2013!
The best paperback books of 2013 From Marginalia on Casanova to Philip Terry’s tapestry, Nicholas Lezard round up the best paperbacks of the year “The year began with a bang for me with the...
View ArticleTo Humanize and Dehumanize
Imitation, True Contrasts, and the Faustian Pact: On Szentkuthy’s Towards the One & Only Metaphor When Miklós Szentkuthy published Prae in 1934 at the sprightly age of 26, the novel was deemed to...
View ArticleSzentkuthy: TLS Review
“In the first pages of a notebook he kept in the summer of 1934, Miklós Szentkuthy lies sweating in bed. He stares at “the lathes of the roller blinds” in his bedroom, the spreading “milky-blue leaves”...
View ArticleReview: Szentkuthy
“With [Towards the One & Only Metaphor], the second of Szentkuthy’s works made available in English by Contra Mundum Press, after Marginalia on Casanova, the author begins to take on more of a...
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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 László Németh, András...
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