Overview
The short stories in this collection, from the tale of the idle young man dawdling pleasantly in Venice to the Romanian villager meditating revenge on his tormentor, draw on the author's experiences of life, love, sacrifice, betrayal and courage, and reveal, as a recurring leitmotif, an indomitable will to survive. Evocative short stories set in Europe and Transylvania between the two world wars.
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Author: Miklos Banffy ,
Thomas Sneddon
Publisher: Blue Guides
Imprint: Blue Danube
Weight: 0.200kg
ISBN: 9781905131907
ISBN 10: 1905131909
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 04 May 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
No mere aristocrat with a penchant for writing, but a writer who has earned his place in Hungarian literature. --Antal Szerb on Miklós Bánffy
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"Born in 1873 into one of Transylvania's longest-established noble families. He studied law and embarked on a political career (serving as Hungary's Foreign Minister in 1921-2) but his inclinations were always artistic and he made a name for himself as a literary editor, as manager of the Hungarian Opera and as a talented designer of theatre sets and costumes. It is as a writer that he is best known: his Transylvanian Trilogy is one of the great works of twentieth-century European literature. When Europe's borders were redrawn after the First World War, Transylvania was assigned to Romania and though Bánffy took Romanian citizenship, he lost his land after the new national reforms. Following the Second World War, the communist regime blocked his ability to publish his writings. In 1949 he left Romania for Budapest, where he died in 1950. These are the first published works by an exciting new translator, Thomas Sneddon. Born in Ireland, he completed an MA in translation at Queen's University, Belfast. He currently lives and works in Budapest. Tom Sneddon's translations are endorsed by Thomas Barcsay, Professor Emeritus (Department of History) at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the great-nephew of Miklós Bánffy. Praising the quality of the translation, Barcsay says: ""Hungarian is a notoriously concise language and Miklos Bánffy's prose is more compact than most. To discover the subtle layers of meaning underlying the text and to render these in English without ignoring the hint of lyricism which infuses them requires both talent and sophistication. Thomas Sneddon's outstanding translation shows that he possesses these qualities in abundance."""
