BBN-ERA-091 Movements in Hungarian LiteratureLengyel Imre Zsoltlengyel.imre.zsolt@btk.elte.hu Fridays 10:00–11:30 A/318 The aim of this course is to provide a basic overview of some of the important authors and works of modern Hungarian literature. The course functions as a discussion group with the students expected to read the assigned texts from week to week. (The texts will be available electronically.) Planned schedule: 15-Feb-2019 Introduction 22-Feb-2019 Krúdy Gyula: Short stories from The Adventures of Sindbad (Youth, Sindbad’s Dream, By the Danube, Sindbad and the Actress, Escape from Women, Escape from Life, Escape from Death) 1-Mar-2019 Csáth Géza: Short stories (The Magician's Garden, Little Emma, Opium, The Black Silence, The Toad, Matricide, The Death of the Magician, Father and Son, The Well) 8-Mar-2019 Kosztolányi Dezső: Chapters from Kornél Esti (I, II, III, IX, XIII, XVIII) 22-Mar-2019 Déry Tibor: Niki 29-Mar-2019 Nádas Péter: The Bible, Lady Klára's House 5-Apr-2019 Szabó Magda: The Door 12-Apr-2019 Kertész Imre: Fatelessness 3-May-2019 Krasznahorkai László: The Last Wolf, Herman I & II 17-May-2019 Test Available editions: Krúdy Gyula. The Adventures of Sindbad [transl. George Szirtes]. New York: New York Review Books, 2011. Csáth Géza. Opium: Selected Stories [transl. Judith Sollosy]. Budapest: Corvina, 2002. Kosztolányi Dezső. Kornél Esti [transl. Bernard Adams]. New York: New Directions, 2011. Déry Tibor. Niki: the story of a dog [transl. George Szirtes]. New York: New York Review Books, 2009. Nádas Péter. Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays [transl. Imre Goldstein]. New York: Picador, 2008. Szabó Magda. The Door [transl. Len Rix]. New York: New York Review Books, 2015. Kertész Imre. Fatelessness: A Novel [transl. Tim Wilkinson]. New York: Vintage International, 2004. Bodor Ádám. The Sinistra Zone [transl. Paul Olchváry]. New York: New Directions, 2013. Krasznahorkai László, The Last Wolf & Herman: The Game Warden & the Death of a Craft [transl. John Batki]. New York: New Directions, 2016.
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