An Oracle of Humanism’s Survival

May 11th, 2007 | Category: Arts & Entertainment

If the number, variety and talent of a country’s writers should be apportioned to that country’s population or size, next small Hungary is operating at an incredible surplus. But whether the number, variety and talent of a country’s writers should be apportioned, instead, to the trauma suffered by that country — adjusted to the number and variety of its national wounds, as inflicted by wars and passing regimes — soon after Hungary’s contemporary writing wealth seems

justified. Living and writing today, Hungary can count Nobel laureate Imre Kertész, Péter Esterházy, Péter Nádas and György Dalos among its internationally greatest, alongside the witty and devastatingly intelligent György Konrád, who in English publishes under the nom-de-cognatus George.

Original post by The Forward