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Books by George Szirtes
  | | The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2020 by Maclehose Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85705-855-3, ISBN: 0-85705-855-X "The Photographer at Sixteen spools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband and two young boys from Hungary in 1956 and her time in two concentration camps, her girlhood as an ambitious photographer, and the ..." |
 | | Iza's Ballad (New York Review Books Classics) by Professor Magda Szabo, Mr George Szirtes, Magda Szabao, Magda Szabó, George Szirtes Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2016 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-68137-034-7, ISBN: 1-68137-034-4 "From the author of The Door, selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2015 An NYRB Classics Original Like Magda Szabo's internationally acclaimed novel The Door, Iza's Ballad is a striking story of the relationship between two women, in this case a mother and a daughter. Ettie, the mother, is old and from an older world than the rapidly modernizing Communist Hungary of the years after World War II. From ..." |
 | | War & War(1st Edition) (New Directions Paperbook) by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai, Lszl¢ Krasznahorkai Paperback, 279 Pages, Published 2006 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1609-8, ISBN: 0-8112-1609-8 "From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeA novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the ins ..." |
 | | Thirty Poets Go to the Gym by George Szirtes Paperback, 44 Pages, Published 2018 by Candlestick Press ISBN-13: 978-1-907598-61-6, ISBN: 1-907598-61-8 "Written in the style of the poets themselves, the collection shows Szirtes at his most versatile and entertaining." |
 | | Niki(Reprint) The Story of a Dog (New York Review Books Classics) by Tibor Dery, George Szirtes, Edward Hyams, Tibor/ Hyams Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-318-3, ISBN: 1-59017-318-X ""The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of '48" so the story begins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist government promises to set things straight, and Mr. Ancsa, an engineer, is as eager to get to work building the future as he is to forget the past. The last thing he has time for is a litt ..." |
 | | Bad Machine (Paperback) by George Szirtes Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2013 by Bloodaxe Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-957-1, ISBN: 1-85224-957-9 "Here, politics, assimilation, desire, creatureliness and the pleasure and loss of the body, mingle in various attenuated forms such as lexicon, canzone, acrostics, mirror poems, postcards, and a series of `minimenta' after Anselm Kiefer ..." |
 | | New and Collected Poems(Reprint) by George Szirtes Paperback, 520 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-813-0, ISBN: 1-85224-813-0 "George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. Haunted by his family's knowledge and experience of war, occupation and the Holocaust, as well as by loss, danger and exile, all of Szirtes' poetry covers universal themes: love, desire and illusion; loyalty and betrayal; history, art and memory; humanity and t ..." |
 | | The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai, John Batki, George Szirtes, Land#225, Szland#243 Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2019 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2905-0, ISBN: 0-8112-2905-X "Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai―“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes) is Krasznahorkai in a maddening nutshell―it features a classic obsessed narrator, a man hired (by mistake) to write the true tale of the last wolf in Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another person, dragged about a cold foreign place, ..." |
 | | Satantango(1st Edition) by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai, Laszla3 Krasznahorkai, Laszlo Krasnahorkai Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1734-7, ISBN: 0-8112-1734-5 "From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeAt long last, twenty-five years after the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai burst onto the scene with his first novel, Satantango dances into English in a beautiful translation by George Szirtes. Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that “the ..." |
 | | Love and Other Stories by Tibor Dery, George Szirtes Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2005 by New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1625-8, ISBN: 0-8112-1625-X "Tibor Déry (1894-1977), winner of Hungary's highest artistic honor, the Kossuth Prize, in 1948, was first imprisoned in 1934 by the Horthy regime for translating André Gide's diary of his journey to Russia, and again, over twenty years later, for his writings and political activities during the Hungarian Revolt of 1956 against Soviet occupation. Around the world, Tibor Déry Committees formed: Picasso, Camus, Sartre, Bertrand Russel, E.M ..." |
 | | Casanova in Bolzano(1st Edition) A Novel by Sandor Marai, George Szirtes Hardcover, 294 Pages, Published 2004 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41337-7, ISBN: 0-375-41337-5 "Another rediscovered masterpiece from the author of Embers: an erotically charged novel–written within the framework of historical reality–about Casanova’s fateful encounter with the woman who finally defeats him.In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escaped from the dreaded cells of Venice’s most infamous jail: it is at this moment that Sándor Márai begins his story. Stopping to rest at the Italian village of Bolzano, Casanova secures a loan to reb ..." |
 | | Mapping the Delta by George Szirtes Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2017 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-78037-320-1, ISBN: 1-78037-320-1 "A collection of poems inspired by the idea of the Delta as a densely populated place. At the core of the book is "The Yellow Room," a sequence of mirror poems contemplating the Jewishness of the poet's father. Many of the poems are formal haiku sequences. They are new parts of a personal Delta." |
 | | Bad Machine by George Szirtes Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2013 by Sheep Meadow Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937679-15-6, ISBN: 1-937679-15-2 "New themes and new ways of writing in poems which stretch the possibilities of form, questioning language and its mastery." |
 | | Metamorphosis(Updated) Poems Inspired by Titian (National Gallery London) by Patience Agbabi, Simon Armitage, Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Tony Harrison, Nicholas Penny, Sinead Morrissey, Seamus Heaney, Frances Leviston, Hugo Williams, Don Paterson, Christopher Reid, Jo Shapcott, George Szirtes Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2012 by National Gallery Company Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85709-547-0, ISBN: 1-85709-547-2 "As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian: "Diana and Callisto", "Diana and Actaeon" and "The Death of Actaeon". Titian's paintings were inspired by Ovid's "Metamorphoses" - stories of transformation - and depict the fatal consequences of a mortal tragically caught up in the affair ..." |
 | | Reel Szirtes, George by George Szirtes Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2005 by Bloodaxe Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-676-1, ISBN: 1-85224-676-6 "His first book, The Slant Door, was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Prize and since then he has won the Cholmondeley Award ... edition of Agnes Nemes Nagy's poetry, The Night of Akhenaton: Selected Poems (2004), was a Poetry Book Society ..." |
 | | Short Wave; SIGNED 1st/1st by George Szirtes Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 1983 by Secker & Warburg ISBN-13: 978-0-436-50996-4, ISBN: 0-436-50996-2 |
 | | The World Goes On(1st Edition) by Ottilie Mulzet, George Szirtes, John Batki, László Krasznahorkai, Lã¡Szlã Krasznahorkai, Lszl Krasznahorkai Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by New Directions ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2419-2, ISBN: 0-8112-2419-8 "A magnificent new collection of stories by “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our ..." |
 | | The Adventures of Sindbad(Updated) (New York Review Books Classics) by Gyula/ Szirte Krudy, George Szirtes, Gyula Krúdy Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2011 by Nyrb Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-445-6, ISBN: 1-59017-445-3 "What you have loved remains yours. Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries but never lost one, for he returns to visit them all ladies, actresses, housemaids in his memories and dreams. From the bustling streets of Budapest to small provincial towns where nothing ever seems to change, this ghostly Lothario encounters his ..." |
 | | More Bloody Clerihews by George Szirtes Softcover ISBN-13: 978-1-73977-224-6, ISBN: 1-73977-224-5 |
 | | Notes on the Inner City by George Szirtes Softcover, 39 Pages, Published 2015 by Eyewear Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-908998-73-6, ISBN: 1-908998-73-3 "Here is an intriguing and absorbing collection of poems by one of the key poets now writing." |
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