Rococo Jungle
Ottilie Mulzet on Marginalia on Casanova: “. . . in his endless self-interruptions, Szentkuthy uncannily almost seems like an earlier incarnation of Péter Esterházy (even in his copious use of...
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M.A. Orthofer on Marginalia on Casanova: “Marginalia on Casanova is an odd, fascinating book — a philosophical work, but also one of interpretation, in several layers, from eras and context, to...
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“I come back to scandalous neglect (other European countries are fine with him). Wilkinson himself once said that English literature is “boring”, and compared to this, it is: with a very few...
View ArticleThe Only True Luxury
David Van Dusen reviews Marginalia on Casanova: “Szentkuthy’s “commentary” is possibly better classified as a novel; he himself considered it the first volume of Szentkuthy’s recherché, pan-European...
View ArticleGenuinely Different
“I’ve turned this book over in my head many times and I’m mostly still at a loss. I haven’t read a book so unlike anything else in some time. Hungarian author Miklós Szentkuthy (1908-1988) wrote the...
View ArticleSzentkuthy: Best Book of 2013!
The best paperback books of 2013 From Marginalia on Casanova to Philip Terry’s tapestry, Nicholas Lezard round up the best paperbacks of the year “The year began with a bang for me with the...
View ArticleTo Humanize and Dehumanize
Imitation, True Contrasts, and the Faustian Pact: On Szentkuthy’s Towards the One & Only Metaphor When Miklós Szentkuthy published Prae in 1934 at the sprightly age of 26, the novel was deemed to...
View ArticleSzentkuthy: TLS Review
“In the first pages of a notebook he kept in the summer of 1934, Miklós Szentkuthy lies sweating in bed. He stares at “the lathes of the roller blinds” in his bedroom, the spreading “milky-blue leaves”...
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Marginalia On Casanova
Marginalia on Casanova, the first volume of the St. Orpheus Breviary, is Miklós Szentkuthy’s synthesis of 2,000 years of European culture. St. Orpheus is Szentkuthy’s Virgil, an omniscient poet who...
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Making A Film
Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (1920–1993) is one of the most renowned figures in world cinema. Director of a long list of critically acclaimed motion pictures, including La strada, La dolce vita,...
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