George Gömöri
Biographic Data
| ID | 1035035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Gömöri |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Gömöri |
| SIGNATURE | GÖMÖRI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Antony's College, Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Last Days of Budapest
Where the Reader Can Be Warned
But Crime Does Punish by Ján Johanides (review)
Reviewed by: But Crime Does Punish by Ján Johanides George Gömöri JÁN JOHANIDES But Crime Does Punish Trans. Julia & Peter Sherwood. Prague. Karolinum Press. 2022. 110 pages. MUCH HAS BEEN written on the horrifying abuses of justice in the former Soviet Union and in most countries of the Communist bloc, but relatively little specifically on the lawless rule of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia between 1947 and the mid-1950s. I can recall only…
Az örök látogatÃ3 â Konrád György (1933â2019) by Károly Szarka
0 challenge, and it can also be a way to seek identity and catharsis. The sometimes-complicated twists of the narrative mean that it benefits from a rereading. The threads leading to the revelations at the end become clearer, and an understanding of the narrator develops. A rereading does not dampen its disquieting and mixed tone, however, nor does it reduce the impact of the psychologically threatening situations that the narrator faces. The boo…
Zsuzsa SelyemIt's Raining in Moscow by Erika Mihálycsa Peter Sherwood
a fabulous job of researching. We see the famous Colombian writer among contemporaries such as Adriano González León, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, and Elena Garro, all working toward a “New Latin American Novel,” a concept the author works hard to establish. The byword and the concept in the middle of this study is the “networked creativity” of Latin American writers, to which end the critic Luis Harss is instructively quoted: “All of these people live…
What he may seem to the world
This paper identifies, describes and analyses Isaac Newton's known inscriptions in alba amicorum (autograph books). It begins with an introduction to the early modern autograph book and its social utility for travelling students. Each Newton inscription is contextualized with brief biographies of the individual album owners. The potential reasons for Newton's use of his chosen epigrams are considered, as are possible reflexive dynamics between hi…
Rudolf UngváryBalatoni nyaralÃ3
Books in Review portray how literary epics reflect the human mind and how the evolution of language itself is embedded within these epics. The author illustrates how epics as an imaginative experience had the ability to respond to the crises of their times and to shape the challenges of each historic era— for example, literary epics in the Western world played a significant role in the formation of culture by orienting people’s thinking toward mo…
Polish and Hungarian Poets on the Holocaust
Andrzej FranaszekHerbert
Andrzej Franaszek Herbert: Biografia 2 vols. Kraków. Wydawnictwo Znak. 2018. 857 & 958 pages. Andrzej Franaszek once again undertook a gigantic task when, after his successful biography of Nobel Prize–winning Polish author Czesław Miłosz (2011, English translation 2016), he decided to write a comprehensive biography of another outstanding Polish poet, Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998). In the case of the latter, Franaszek had at his disposal a wealth …
MeghÃvás a Rienzi Mariska Szabadidö Klubba by Ernö Szív
others); about the relationship between culture , myth, and history; and about language and democracy. In these questions, Slapšak uses collage and free association, presenting interesting examples from theater, music, and film. Readers who pick up this book for its travelogue qualities will enjoy the places depicted and appealing details that can rarely be found in travel guides. Those looking for a romance novel should respond to the progressiv…
Falevelek szÃ(c)lben (Ãsatás I) by György Konrád
Chris Arthur Reading Life Mobile, Alabama. Negative Capability Press. 2017. 202 pages. Chris Arthur knows what an essay is: an attempt to reach a further, transcendent understanding through writing. Chris Arthur’s 2017 collection of essays, Reading Life, keeps an eye to the particular while exploring perennial questions—on the one hand, his daughter’s feet, the contents of a bookshelf, words themselves; and on the other, our human condition, the …
Naplók könyve
is both a musician and the symbol of the events in Rwanda. The life and death of Kitami—a famous singer, who, among other prestigious accomplishments, sold thousands of records and filled a large concert hall in Queens—is told from several points of view. Her death remains a mystery, as her reputation is based not only on her talent but also on how she is related to Rwanda. The story is first told as a third-person narration of events when Kitami…
MiÅosz
“historical” before the noun “stage” at the beginning and end of a paragraph in the 1st Class, an italicization that does not occur in the original. This reader also wishes that New Directions had included the prologue penned by Cortázar scholar Carles Álvarez Garriga for the Spanish edition, in which we learn, for example, that Cortázar had to “lower his aim” and was unable to teach the classes as he had hoped because of the students ’ dearth of…
Fortepan
Poems can, of course, do many things, and these poems do some of them very well, but one can come away longing for what’s lacking, those things beyond the scope of public performance and the demonstrative, those special whisperings found especially in poetry. By all means, take in this book like a good show, but then be prepared to go home and seek out the human voices that speak beside you, there in the room with you. In his preface to the 1765 …
Ez egy ilyen cscs
of both pre- and postrevolutionary Iran as Saïd’s youthful idealism gives way to a profound cynicism concerning the possibility of substantive political change. A former doctor, Saïd now works as a night watchman in a parking garage. The physical and physiological torment he suffered in Iran continues to haunt him. Deeply depressed, he checks into a hotel in a small French town to plan his suicide. Dadsetan’s descriptions of his protagonist ’s ex…
A vÃ(c)gsÅ kocsma by Imre Kertész
intrude upon his new family’s happiness: he eventually comes to realize that he himself has destroyed the new home that he had, almost miraculously, been able to build with his wife. Nor is Judith unharmed by loutish antiSemitism : she will never forget a certain childhood slight. The novel begins with a letter written by Marc, Salim’s and Judith’s son, to his twin sister before his rather implausible invasion of, and Molotov-cocktail -fueled att…
Kronos by Witold Gombrowicz
reviews masterly ability; he achieves ease in nearly every line, and this book keeps pace with any he has written. We find the persistent influences that have long ago blended uniquely into his agile and protean imagination but which seem ever to refresh themselves in his work: most prominently , in addition to the JudeoChristian tradition, we find the poets of ancient China, the natural world, Rilke, Cézanne, and, to a much lesser degree, other …
A harmadik hd
Danilo Kiš Night and Fog John K. Cox, tr. Helena History Press Night and Fog, a collection of dramas and screenplays by Serbian writer Danilo Kiš, is filled with moving stories of people and their lives. Written during the Cold War and drawing from history (and also occasionally from Greek drama), this translation reveals Kiš’s thoughtful, precise, often-tragic writing in an accessible manner. Huang Chunming Stories Howard Goldblatt, tr. Renditio…
The Summer My Father Died
M. M. Tawfik candygirl American University in Cairo Press In a novel he translated personally from Arabic to English, Tawfik situates the elements of American interventionism, intellectual identity, and Internet culture within the complex panorama of urban Cairo. An Egyptian scientist known as “the Cerebellum,” formerly of the Iraqi nuclear program, evades a renegade NSA agent while pursuing a virtual love affair with a seductive online avatar. N…
Ywe Cienie
Oksana Zabuzhko The Museum of Abandoned Secrets Nina Shevchuk-Murray, tr. AmazonCrossing In a novel described as her magnum opus, Oksana Zabuzhko delves deeply into Ukraine’s past for a saga of three women who are inextricably linked. A present-day love story is juxtaposed with the hazy history of World War II’s jarring impact on Ukraine. Zabuzhko is a powerful literary voice, and Shevchuk-Murray preserves the distinct identity of her writing in …
Édes Haz ́m
72 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews One of the great merits of Formas para volver a casa is that it is a book that no previous Chilean author has written about the dictatorship ; a necessary and beautiful story that captures the complex experience of daring to face banality, which reminds us that sometimes what we find upon returning home is something we had not wanted to see in the first place, or at least not see so close up. Marcelo Rioseco Univ…
Szentek hárfája by László Szilasi
farmer Mátyás Omasta bytheyoung studentTamas Grynaeus,in full viewofthemostly Hungarian and Slovak congregation of the grand Lutheran church ofthisrich provincial town.Variouscharacters take up thenarrative ofthestory trying to workouta motive forthemurder ,butwe receive no unequivocal answerto the questionof "whydone -it. " The author, however, describes withgreatpsychological insight howthedifferent characters approach theproblem andpresents in…
A mai törtÃ(c)nelmi regÃ(c)ny by Ágnes Heller
onSerbian poetry andtheeffects of globalization alongwithan appendix of Serbianpoetrytypesafter 1970,linkingeach termwiththe namesofassociated poets. Theimportance ofthis booklies in the explanation of how young womenpoetsworkin theAilN in Belgrade, as well as at theCenter forWomen'sStudiesinSerbia, and howthey havebeenempowered to create,critique, and publishtheir workopenlywithout fearofrejectionbymen ,whohavebeeninthe forefront until now.Thiss…
Kedves ismeretlen by István Kemény
INI 0 a men, the signares created a matri archal, commercial network that controlled part of the colonial trade and that transformed them from high-class courtesans into members of the local economic elite of the island cityof Saint-Louis. While she has no children of her own, Toinette has adopted Cathy (the "raparille" of the title), an adolescent former captive from thewars of conquest being waged inland,whom the elderly signare is grooming as …
A fehÃ(c)r király by György Dragomán
wI > I I Z I c? p I H < I I H ? I * o I (2002),andHilandar Writers (1999),as well as forhis criticalessays in major newspapers and journals throughout Serbia, dealing with national and lit erary themes ("WhatWould Heine Say?" about PeterHandke; "Kosovo in the Serbian Tradition"; "A Letter toG?nter Grass"; "The Death of the Poetic Theatre"). He has authored a text fora sound phantasmagoria, A Word about Voices (Drama Program Radio Beograd, Sound W…
View with a Grain of Sand
In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty. The ruins of Troy; sunlight gleaming on a pewter jug; birds returning in the spring; the Abominable Snowman lurking in the Himalayas; a body-building contes…
Cultural and Literary Developments
By 1950 standardization of cultural life in Soviet-dominated coun tries was nearly complete. This was more easily effected in literature than in painting or music—areas in which the artist's position was less clearly defined. Pressures for conformity caused artists and writers to resort to three main types of behavior. Some collaborated wholeheartedly, others became semi-collabora tors, and still others chose to collaborate not at all. It soon be…
Hungarian Writers and Literature
Polish and Hungarian Poetry 1945-1956
The Cultural Intelligentsia
As has been pointed out in Chapter 1, in the ‘official’ Marxist-Leninist view of social stratification the ‘intelligentsia’ is a separate stratum in socialist society performing the leading creative, executive and administrative roles, and it works in full harmony with the manual working class. In this theory the political leadership of society (in practice, the Communist Party) is the expression of the unitary will of the socialist intelligentsi…
Cyprian Norwid
Selected Poems, 1933-80
The Faces of Mr. Cogito
Zbigniew Herbert had already published four books of poetry when towards end of 1960s he began experiment with lyrical named Cogito. While in his earlier poetry he often employed both direct and dramatic monologues (the latter becoming a characteristic Herbertian form of expression manifested in poems such as Tren Fortynbrasa [The Lament of Fortinbras] and Powrot prokonsula [The Return of Proconsul]), he now decided shift his attention from histo…
View with a Grain of Sand
In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in which nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, she documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty. The ruins of Troy; sunlight gleaming on a pewter jug; birds returning in the spring; the Abominable Snowman lurking in the Himalayas; a body-building contes…
Two Émigréjournals
GEORGE GÃ MÃ RI (Cambridge, England., U.K.) TWO Ã MIGRÃ JOURNALS: KULTURA (FROM A HUNGARIAN) AND IRODALMI UJSÃ G (FROM A POLISH) POINT OF VIEW The Polish journal Kultura w a s started in t h e W e s t in 1947 and still ex- ists, while t h e Hungarian Iroda!mi u j s i g (Literary gazette) was founded in different c i r c u m s t a n c e s (in Communist-ruled Hungary) back in 1950. It w a s relaunched in t h e W e s
A fehÃ(c)r király by György Dragomán
wI > I I Z I c? p I H < I I H ? I * o I (2002),andHilandar Writers (1999),as well as forhis criticalessays in major newspapers and journals throughout Serbia, dealing with national and lit erary themes ("WhatWould Heine Say?" about PeterHandke; "Kosovo in the Serbian Tradition"; "A Letter toG?nter Grass"; "The Death of the Poetic Theatre"). He has authored a text fora sound phantasmagoria, A Word about Voices (Drama Program Radio Beograd, Sound W…
Berlin-Hamlet by Szilárd Borbély, Ottilie Mulzet
VERSE Radu Andriescu, lustin Pan{a, Cristian Popescu. Memory Glyphs: Three Prose Poets from Romania. Adam J. Sorkin et al.f trs. Prague. Twisted Spoon (SBC distr.).2009. 168 pages. $15. isbn 978-80-86264-32-5 In his brief but illuminating transla tor's preface to thework of three Romanian poets born in the 1960s, Adam J. Sorkin describes prose poems as "a formless form, oxymo ronic,with both lightness and heft,a chiseled, lapidary, elliptical poe…
Wiersze 1954-1996 by Wiktor Woroszylski
of the measured breath, shunning orthodox meters for a more relaxed voice, one that explores?and skill fullyexploits?the rhythmicproper ties of natural speech with a precise and demanding ear: Summer windless unmoving leaves the eye unseeing the ear unhearing a quiver perceiving what The GizliAlanlar sequence reads like an extended minimalist mono logue, inwhich Turan induces rather than works the language, inscrib ing the physical limits of the …
JövendÅmondás
imiiiiiiiimmiiiii a simple chronologyand keeping the corresponding notes to a minimum, he creates a shapely, focused assemblage whose clear, precise translations chime likeringing glass. Econ?mou's translation style is direct and concise. It is somewhat lighterand less formalin itslanguage than thestylesofprevious translators ofCavafy likeRae Dalven, Edmund Keeley, and Philip Sherrard,or, more recently, Daniel Mendelsohn. Unlike Mendelsohn, Econo…
Kedves ismeretlen by István Kemény
INI 0 a men, the signares created a matri archal, commercial network that controlled part of the colonial trade and that transformed them from high-class courtesans into members of the local economic elite of the island cityof Saint-Louis. While she has no children of her own, Toinette has adopted Cathy (the "raparille" of the title), an adolescent former captive from thewars of conquest being waged inland,whom the elderly signare is grooming as …
Szentek hárfája by László Szilasi
farmer Mátyás Omasta bytheyoung studentTamas Grynaeus,in full viewofthemostly Hungarian and Slovak congregation of the grand Lutheran church ofthisrich provincial town.Variouscharacters take up thenarrative ofthestory trying to workouta motive forthemurder ,butwe receive no unequivocal answerto the questionof "whydone -it. " The author, however, describes withgreatpsychological insight howthedifferent characters approach theproblem andpresents in…
A mai törtÃ(c)nelmi regÃ(c)ny by Ágnes Heller
onSerbian poetry andtheeffects of globalization alongwithan appendix of Serbianpoetrytypesafter 1970,linkingeach termwiththe namesofassociated poets. Theimportance ofthis booklies in the explanation of how young womenpoetsworkin theAilN in Belgrade, as well as at theCenter forWomen'sStudiesinSerbia, and howthey havebeenempowered to create,critique, and publishtheir workopenlywithout fearofrejectionbymen ,whohavebeeninthe forefront until now.Thiss…
Édes Haz ́m
72 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY reviews One of the great merits of Formas para volver a casa is that it is a book that no previous Chilean author has written about the dictatorship ; a necessary and beautiful story that captures the complex experience of daring to face banality, which reminds us that sometimes what we find upon returning home is something we had not wanted to see in the first place, or at least not see so close up. Marcelo Rioseco Univ…
The Summer My Father Died
M. M. Tawfik candygirl American University in Cairo Press In a novel he translated personally from Arabic to English, Tawfik situates the elements of American interventionism, intellectual identity, and Internet culture within the complex panorama of urban Cairo. An Egyptian scientist known as “the Cerebellum,” formerly of the Iraqi nuclear program, evades a renegade NSA agent while pursuing a virtual love affair with a seductive online avatar. N…
Ywe Cienie
Oksana Zabuzhko The Museum of Abandoned Secrets Nina Shevchuk-Murray, tr. AmazonCrossing In a novel described as her magnum opus, Oksana Zabuzhko delves deeply into Ukraine’s past for a saga of three women who are inextricably linked. A present-day love story is juxtaposed with the hazy history of World War II’s jarring impact on Ukraine. Zabuzhko is a powerful literary voice, and Shevchuk-Murray preserves the distinct identity of her writing in …
Kronos by Witold Gombrowicz
reviews masterly ability; he achieves ease in nearly every line, and this book keeps pace with any he has written. We find the persistent influences that have long ago blended uniquely into his agile and protean imagination but which seem ever to refresh themselves in his work: most prominently , in addition to the JudeoChristian tradition, we find the poets of ancient China, the natural world, Rilke, Cézanne, and, to a much lesser degree, other …
A harmadik hd
Danilo Kiš Night and Fog John K. Cox, tr. Helena History Press Night and Fog, a collection of dramas and screenplays by Serbian writer Danilo Kiš, is filled with moving stories of people and their lives. Written during the Cold War and drawing from history (and also occasionally from Greek drama), this translation reveals Kiš’s thoughtful, precise, often-tragic writing in an accessible manner. Huang Chunming Stories Howard Goldblatt, tr. Renditio…
Ez egy ilyen cscs
of both pre- and postrevolutionary Iran as Saïd’s youthful idealism gives way to a profound cynicism concerning the possibility of substantive political change. A former doctor, Saïd now works as a night watchman in a parking garage. The physical and physiological torment he suffered in Iran continues to haunt him. Deeply depressed, he checks into a hotel in a small French town to plan his suicide. Dadsetan’s descriptions of his protagonist ’s ex…
A vÃ(c)gsÅ kocsma by Imre Kertész
intrude upon his new family’s happiness: he eventually comes to realize that he himself has destroyed the new home that he had, almost miraculously, been able to build with his wife. Nor is Judith unharmed by loutish antiSemitism : she will never forget a certain childhood slight. The novel begins with a letter written by Marc, Salim’s and Judith’s son, to his twin sister before his rather implausible invasion of, and Molotov-cocktail -fueled att…
Fortepan
Poems can, of course, do many things, and these poems do some of them very well, but one can come away longing for what’s lacking, those things beyond the scope of public performance and the demonstrative, those special whisperings found especially in poetry. By all means, take in this book like a good show, but then be prepared to go home and seek out the human voices that speak beside you, there in the room with you. In his preface to the 1765 …
Naplók könyve
is both a musician and the symbol of the events in Rwanda. The life and death of Kitami—a famous singer, who, among other prestigious accomplishments, sold thousands of records and filled a large concert hall in Queens—is told from several points of view. Her death remains a mystery, as her reputation is based not only on her talent but also on how she is related to Rwanda. The story is first told as a third-person narration of events when Kitami…
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