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**downtowndude** · 06-11-2008, 01:17 PM

Jonathan Derbyshire report from 7May:

Metropole

This review of a newly-translated novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Karinthy appears in the latest issue of New Humanist.

METROPOLE by Ferenc Karinthy (trans. George Szirtes)
Telegram Books ?8.99

Metropole, the first of Hungarian novelist Ferenc Karinthy’s books to be translated into English, comes garlanded with the most extravagant praise. The dust jacket carries the prediction of the French writer G.O. Chateaureynaud that the novel will in due course find a place in the twentieth-century canon, alongside the The Trial and 1984.

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06-11-2008, 01:17 PM	#2
downtowndude Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 452 Senior Member	Jonathan Derbyshire report from 7May: Metropole This review of a newly-translated novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Karinthy appears in the latest issue of New Humanist. METROPOLE by Ferenc Karinthy (trans. George Szirtes) Telegram Books ?8.99 Metropole, the first of Hungarian novelist Ferenc Karinthy’s books to be translated into English, comes garlanded with the most extravagant praise. The dust jacket carries the prediction of the French writer G.O. Chateaureynaud that the novel will in due course find a place in the twentieth-century canon, alongside the The Trial and 1984. more ... (here rather than Blogosphere for topical interest)
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