Hungarian literature

Book Reviews

• Attila Bartis: Tranquility
  - a disturbed Hungarian family
• György Dalos: The Circumcision
  - a Jewish orphan in post-war Hungary faces a choice
• Tibor Déry: Niki: The Story of a Dog
  - a family and a dog in post-war Hungary
• Péter Esterházy: The Book of Hrabal
  - a scintillating novel set in communist Hungary
• Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole*
  - trapped in a crowded city with an incomprehensible language
• Ray Keenoy, et al.: The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature
  - a guide to fiction, drama, and poetry available in English
• Imre Kertesz: Detective Story
  - a dark farce of totalitarian policing
• Imre Kertesz: Fatelessness
  - a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
• Imre Kertesz: Kaddish for a Child Not Born**
  - the introspective monologue of an Auschwitz survivor
• Imre Kertesz: Liquidation
  - a metafictional literary mystery
• George Konrád: The City Builder*
  - a planner's life in a provincial Eastern European town
• George Konrád: Stonedial
  - a multi-faceted novel wound around modern Hungarian history
• Dezso Kosztolanyi: Anna Edes
  - a tragicomic indictment of bourgeois morality
• Dezso Kosztolanyi: Skylark*
  - a novel of provincial life in 1899 Hungary
• Laszlo Krasznahorkai: The Melancholy of Resistance**
  - a small town falls apart with the showing of a whale
• Sándor Márai: Embers
  - looking back at the intensities and obsessions of youth
• Zsigmond Móricz: Be Faithful Unto Death*
  - the boarding school childhood of a Hungarian writer
• Peter Nadas: The End of A Family Story
  - memories of childhood woven into a complex tapestry
• István Örkeny: One Minute Stories*
  - Hungarian stories "while the soft-boiled egg is boiling"
• Antal Szerb: Journey by Moonlight
  - a lively, playful story of nostalgia and obsession
• Antal Szerb: Oliver VII
  - a slight but charming entertainment
• Antal Szerb: The Pendragon Legend
  - a playful Gothic romp dominated by gentle irony
• Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
  - a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary

See also: Eastern Europe | world literature