Mari Alföldy Book order (chronological)

In Slingerbeweging beschouwt György Konrád de invloed van de Hongaarse geschiedenis op de loop van zijn eigen leven; de Duitse bezetting van 1944, de opstand van 1956, toen Hongarije zich probeerde te ontworstelen aan de Russische overheersing en de politieke omwenteling van 1989. In boeiende passages analyseert hij zijn herinneringen, waarbij hij eveneens luchtiger onderwerpen aanroert, zoals de vele reizen die hij maakte, het dagelijks leven in Boedapest en zijn liefde voor de literatuur. Met Slingerbeweging keert Konrád terug naar de jaren van onderdrukking en vrijheid.

Kingbitter, an editor at a publishing house on the verge of closure, believes himself to have been the closest friend of a celebrated writer and Auschwitz survivor, B, who recently committed suicide. Amongst the papers, Kingbitter finds a play entitled Liquidation that predicts the behaviour of B's ex-wife, his mistress and Kingbitter himself.

What is it like to be in love with a pathological liar and fantasist? Esther is, and has been for more than 20 years. "Esther's Inheritance" presents a remarkable narrator who delivers a story as both tragedy and comedy.

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an old General prepares to receive a rare visitor, a man who was once his closest friend but who he has not seen in forty-one years. Over the ensuing hours host and guest will fight a duel of words and silences, accusations and evasions. They will exhume the memory of their friendship and that of the General’s beautiful, long-dead wife. And they will return to the time the three of them last sat together following a hunt in the nearby forest--a hunt in which no game was taken but during which something was lost forever. Embers is a classic of modern European literature, a work whose poignant evocation of the past also seems like a prophetic glimpse into the moral abyss of the present