The daily routine of a man in charge of children at a state welfare organizat and the demands that are made upon him are depicted in this novel set in present day Hungary.

The Case Worker

Konrád, George

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature

The City Builder (Writers from the Other Europe)

Literary

The year 1993. Janos Dragomán, a wandering scholar, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town to visit three old friends. They are Aba Kuno, the almost saintly, highly respected rector of the university; Antal Tombor, the charismatic popular showman-mayor; and Kobra, a stable family man who is also a ubiquitous media pundit dispensing "common sense." The three have wives, all eager to be seduced by Dragom‡n, whose reputation precedes him. Through a series of flashbacks, covering his intellectually and sexually precocious schooldays, his memories of the life of Jews in 1944, and the 1956 Revolution (brilliantly rendered), we learn that Dragomán inadvertently caused the massacre of six young colleagues. Through the turbulent history of a Central European country, Konrád explores familiar themes and delivers a universal, appropriately ambiguous, message.

Stonedial

Contemporary

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Discusses the origins of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union and describes methods for individuals to work for peace and freedom

Antipolitics: An Essay (English and Hungarian Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Harcourt

From the first of these essays to the last, we see how the initial euphoria at the end of Communist rule is tempered by the difficulties of reform. "Konrád is that rarity in political discourse-a fresh voice" (New Yorker). Translated by Michael Henry Heim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

The Melancholy of Rebirth: Essays from Post-Communist Central Europe, 1989-1994

As the Jews of his town are transported to concentration camps, David Kobra escapes to Budapest and grows up amid death and violence, which he later uses in his writing. By the author of The Loser. 10,000 first printing.

A Feast in the Garden

Book by George; Translator-Ivan Sanders

The Loser

HARCOURT, BRACE

From the first of these essays to the last, we see how the initial euphoria at the end of Communist rule is tempered by the difficulties of reform. "Konrád is that rarity in political discourse-a fresh voice" (New Yorker). Translated by Michael Henry Heim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Melancholy Of Rebirth: Essays From Post-Communist Central Europe, 1989-1994

History

Europe

Mariner Books

Written over the last two decades, the essays in this collection speak to what it means to be Jewish-historically, theologically, ideologically, philosophically-within the context of the Holocaust and the disintegration of Communism. George Konrád, a Diaspora Jew, espouses Zionism, he tells us, as one who might, if he chooses, move to Jerusalem, just as he might, if he chooses, move to Paris. Konrád, one of Europe's preeminent essayists and novelists, covers much ground in The Invisible Voice, from German collective guilt to assimilation, from the Diaspora Jew to Israel and Palestine. He discusses the participation of Jews in the "nationalist and Communist experiments," and the issue of forcing collective guilt on the Germans. He looks at European integration and how the Jews fit into it, and what their conduct should be. Should they work toward assimilation or separation in order to survive? These are thoughtful and provocative essays.

The Invisible Voice: Meditations on Jewish Themes

REICH, PETER

History & Criticism

Houghton/Mifflin

When the Jews of his hometown are sent to concentration camps, young David Kobra escapes to Budapest, hiding out from the Nazis and later, growing up under Soviet oppression

A Feast in the Garden (Harvest in Translation)

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