George Konrad, Author, Peter Reich, Translator, Gyorgy Konrad, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-601294-2
Hungarian novelist, essayist and former International PEN president Konr d (The Case Worker) might just as easily have subtitled this ruminative book ""Meditations on Central European Themes."" Having survived the Holocaust almost by a fluke, the...
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George Konrad, Author, Gyorgy Konrad, Author Mariner Books $12 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-600252-3
If anything can be melancholy and optimistic at the same time, it is this collection of 26 speeches, essays, diary entries and more. After a close call with the Nazis, the Hungarian Jewish author of The Case Worker later ran afoul of the Communists.
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George Konrad, Author, Ivan Sanders, Translator, Gyorgy Konrad, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (296p) ISBN 978-0-15-100619-9
Konr d--a past president of International PEN known for his 1970s-era novels criticizing the authoritarianism of Hungary's communism--sets his latest book in 1993, four years after the old regime has been swept away. J nos Dragom n, a famous author...
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George Konrad, Author, Imre Goldstein, Translator, Gyorgy Konrad, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $23.95 (394p) ISBN 978-0-15-130548-3
Portions of this experimental effort by Konrad ( The Case Worker ) are interesting, fresh and valuable, but still more are confusing and poorly thought out. Set in the claustrophobic world of Budapest intellectuals during the late 1980s, the novel...
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George Konrad, Author, Michael Henry Heim, Editor, Jim Tucker, Translator . Other Press $15.95 (303p) ISBN 978-1-59051-139-8
This powerful, highly literary memoir by a world-famous author—essayist and novelist Konrád was elected president of International PEN in 1990—discursively traces his life as a Hungarian child during the Holocaust, and later as a...
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