Plays and Other Writings

by Arpad Goncz, Katharina M. (Translator), Wilson Christopher (Translator)

Overview

Originally published in 1990, this volume is a full translation from Hungarian of Men of God; 1944; The Front; Homecoming; Old People; The Child; Balance; Power; Encounter; and Persephone: Play in Two Acts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429620478
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	266
File size:	581 KB

About the Author

Arpad Goncz

Table of Contents

1. Men of God: Play in Three Acts. 2. 1944. 3. The Front. 4. Homecoming. 5. Old People. 6. The Child. 7. Balance. 8. Power. 9. Encounter. 10. Persephone: Play in Two Acts. 11. Postscript by E. L. Doctorow. 12. Translators' Afterword.

Editorial Reviews

Plato's Republic has been invaded. Many writers are now deeply involved in politics: Havel in Czechoslovakia and Vargas Llosa in Peru are famous, but Goncz, one of Hungary's major dramatists and its new democratically elected president, is little known outside his own country. This situation will change, for the two plays and eight stories collected here reveal a master writer at work. Aristotle would have enjoyed Men of God and Persephone ; Lawrence would have loved the fiction. Goncz doesn't experiment: the plays observe the classical dramatic unities; the stories are not unusual in form; themes are predictably modernist. He is a delight to read. For a review of A Writer's Reali ty by Mario Vargas Llosa, see p. 128.--Ed.-- Vincent D. Balitas, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa.

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