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This work is based on a rather hectic yet humdrum story of a small group of friends living in Toronto, all middle class and each in his or her own way caught up in increasingly tragic middle age crisis, which forms the baseline for the book from beginning to end.
The Refugee. Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books (2019) Translatef from the Hungarian by PAUL SOHAR
The Conscience of Trees – A fák lelkiismerete; Ragged Sky Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2018 Translated from the Hungarian by PAUL SOHAR
Zoltán Böszörményi begins THE REFUGEE with his harrowing escape from the threat of imprisonment in an Eastern European dictatorship but devotes the bulk of the book to his equally adventurous detention in a Western European refugee camp, taking the reader beyond the TV news images to give an inside look into the everyday life of a community of desperate people facing uncertain future.
This book combines fiction and reporting beyond the usual definition of literary nonfiction by applying modern literary conceits to bringing to light a social issue typical of Eastern Europe where the story was researched and written in Hungarian by Zoltán Böszörményi, working in Romania.
Perceptive, cultivated and inventive are terms that aptly apply to Zoltán Böszörményi’s The Conscience of Trees. This remarkable volume of poetry is a transport for the reader, a journey across our planet filtered through the sieve of the poet’s imagination: “I speak of this need with which I live / while the wispy sunrise silently / pours a new dream through the sieve.” Complexity and variety course through the erudite arteries of this book.
In the last years of the Cold War, a private club is a magnet for the elite of an Eastern European city. They keep one another's secrets, even the truth about a brutal murder. When a young journalist learns too much he has to flee the country. A gripping murder mystery, with startling plot twist. Cover drawings by Hungarian artist Ferenc Martyn.
Ripe with love, money, and power, the story of 35-year-old Rudolf—set in a fast-paced, urban environment—begs the question Do we only think we exist? Rudolf and his wife work day and night hoping for a better life—he is a philosophy graduate student and the manager of a car dealership. He also keeps up a heart-wrenching relationship with the chic Wanda.
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A great novel!
Last time, on our way back from the Iron Gate and Krassó-Szörény in October, I received Zoltán's latest book, While I Think I Exist, at the Present House.
I read it with great interest, literally all the way through, I could hardly put it down.
Once again, I thank Zoltán and Jelen Publishers for this book. It was like reading a printed online story. A great novel!
With friendship,
Gábor
About Regal
A good novel offers endless possibilities for interpretation/reading. The Regal is such a novel. One of Kinga Lázár's quotes is particularly thought-provoking. "How would I behave in their place?" The question is asked by Tamás, the main character. Yes, it is worth approaching the characters from this point of view, and asking ourselves the question: How would I behave in their shoes?
The skin of nothing
The author handles the words, the Hungarian language and our cultural and literary literacy in a very beautiful, apt, surprising or even disconcerting way - all at the same time. (Moly.hu)