One of my favorite magazines/journals has been Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics, published by Contra Mundum Press. Unfortunately there hasn’t been an issue in four years (see update) but there should be a new issue available later this month. The CMP folks were nice enough to send me the table of contents for the […]
Tag: Miklos Szentkuthy
Contra Mundum Press has made available some excerpts from the forthcoming book Black Renaissance by Miklós Szentkuthy, the second volume in his St. Orpheus Breviary series. The samples can be found at this link. Needless to say, I’m excited and looking forward to the release. The sample contains the beginning of the introductory essay by […]
The cover of the first edition of Prae (1934) Continuing on with articles from the current Hyperion issue (mentioned here, there is a lengthy excerpt of the third chapter of Contra Mundum Press’ upcoming release of Miklós Szentkuthy’s Prae, translated by Tim Willkinson. In a post last fall I highlighted another Hyperion article by Filip […]
The cover of the first edition of Prae (1934) This will be my final post devoted to notes and quotes on the Hyperion issue devoted to Miklós Szentkuthy. Filip Sikorski’s “Introductory Remarks on Miklós Szentkuthy’s Prae” provides a synopsis of the novel, looks at its main themes, investigates how it can be read non-linearly, and […]
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 […]
I don’t think I’ll ever get caught up on what I missed this past week. I did want to highlight the articles on Miklós Szentkuthy in Asymptote journal while I work my way through everything. The first article is an overview on Szentkuthy by Rainer J. Hanshe titled Entering the World Stage: Miklós Szentkuthy’s Ars […]
Marginalia on Casanova by Miklós Szentkuthy St. Orpheus Breviary, Vol. 1 Translation by Tim Wilkinson Introduction by Zéno Bianu (Translation by Rainer J. Hanshe) Afterword by Mária Tompa (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2012) ISBN 9780983697244This is one of the strangest and most enjoyable books I’ve read in quite a while. I have hesitated to […]