BBN-ERA-091 Movements in Hungarian Literature

Lengyel Imre Zsolt
lengyel.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.