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Character list for “Stevie in the Bloodbath: A Grotesque Play in Two Parts” by István Örkény A Mirror to the Cage: Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays Edited and Translated by Clara Györgyey Introduction by Ervin C. Brody Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1993 ISBN 1557282676 Motto: This age, our parent—executioner provisioned us with a bitter […]
The Flower Show / The Toth Family by István Örkény (New York City: New Directions, 1982) Matraszentanna is a small mountain town, so small, in fact, that it has no indoor plumbing. Anyone wishing an inside flush toilet has to install his own private pump. Only Professor Cipriani, the proud owner of the town’s one […]
The Flower Show / The Toth Family by István Örkény (New York City: New Directions, 1982) Although the scene and characters [of The Flower Show] are those of Budapest, the idea behind them came to Örkény in New York. Switching on the television set on the last day of a visit to America, he happened […]
One Minute Stories by István Örkény, selected and translated by Judith Sollosy (Budapest, Corvina Books Ltd.) I had been reading about some Hungarian plays and ran across István Örkény’s name several times. The more I read about him the more I wanted to read something by him. I selected a collection of his shortest works […]