I didn’t mean to disappear for a couple of weeks but it happened. I’ll try and get back on track tomorrow with the final post on the Hyperion edition devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy, including a few notes on the wonderful excerpt from Black Renaissance. To hold my feet to the fire, I’ll follow up with […]
Month: 11 years ago
Continuing with my notes and quotes on the Hyperion issue devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy… I’m not going to post much about István Vas’ article “Miklós Szentkuthy: a True Avant-Gardist”, although I do recommend reading it for his insight into the author and his work. I will draw attention to this extended quote since it highlights […]
Photo by András Szebeni Picture sourceIn my previous post on a collection of Szentkuthy links, I mentioned the Hyperion issue, devoted to Szentkuthy. Three articles have “mask” in the title (and other articles mention the word, too): “Masks Behind Masks: A Portrait of Miklós Szentkuthy” by András Nagy, “Behind the Mask and Under the Surface: […]
Since my notes on several books I’ve read have been lost, I thought I would start posting on what I’m currently reading…which is many articles about Miklós Szentkuthy as well as the recently released translation of Towards the One and Only Metaphor. Instead of having 20 tabs open in my browser I’m going to collect […]
Well, the play is over but I thought I would share this clip from Shakespeare Santa Cruz on The Taming of the Shrew. In it are Gretchen Hall (Kate), Fred Arsenault (Petruchio / Christopher Sly), and Edward Morgan (Director). They get to the heart of the play in the first sentence when mentioning […]
My computer died today. And then I made sure the damn thing was dead. Deader than dead. And then some. Not that he was waiting for the letter, but Michael Dell will not be receiving an invitation to any of our parties any time soon. But then that’s been true for the past few years […]
Alexander’s Lost World is a 6 x 60” series coproduced with David Adams Films and Sky Vision. Following the course of the River Oxus (Amu Darya) for the first time, Adams takes viewers on an extraordinary 1,500-mile (2400 km) journey through war-torn Afghanistan and Central Asia. The Ancient Greeks have long been credited for bringing […]