“Are you experiencing any of the following: (1) A thirst for palinka? (2) A yearning for Budapest, though the closest you’ve ever come is the Hungarian Pastry Shop in Manhattan? (3) An urge to deploy diacritical marks over every other vowel? If so, you may be suffering from Hungarophilia.”
Ghosts of Budapest by Garth Risk Hallberg
Year In Reading contributor Scott Esposito interviewed László Krasznahorkai’s translator Ottilie Mulzet. Among the topics they discuss is Seiobo There Below, Krasznahorkai’s most recent novel. It will be published this spring.
Hungarian author, Holocaust survivor, and 2002 Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész has announced his retirement.
“A writer doesn’t need anything to write a book, he is completely alone and it’s good that it should be so. A director on the other hand can’t make a film without others.”
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“I write my texts, my sentences, in my head — outside there is a terrible, almost unbearable noise, inside there is a terrible, almost unbearable, pounding silence.”
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The longest word in the Hungarian language.
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![“A writer doesn’t need anything to write a book, he is completely alone and it’s good that it should be so. A director on the other hand can’t make a film without others.”
- László Krasznahorkai
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![“I write my texts, my sentences, in my head — outside there is a terrible, almost unbearable noise, inside there is a terrible, almost unbearable, pounding silence.”
- László Krasznahorkai
[Image via bluebanana.ch]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3r6rsU2fX1r6xvfko1_1280.jpg)