Une sélection de poèmes écrits par le poète et écrivain hongrois, D. Kosztolanyi, tout au long de sa carrière, illustrant l'évolution de la forme et du style de ses vers. Elle cherche en outre à refléter l'importance de certains thèmes récurrents dans son œuvre, en particulier sa conscience aiguë de la présence de la mort. ©Electre 2026

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(1885 - 1936) enjoyed a stellar literary career in Budapest, authoring novels, short stories, verse, literary translations, and journalism until oral cancer cut short his life. His poetry remains much less familiar to the anglophone world than his novels, particularly Anna Édes and Skylark. No book-length selection of his poems has existed to date in English. The present volume fills this major void in the international representation of modern Hungarian poetry. The late John Ridland (1933 - 2020) began his collaboration in translation of Hungarian verse with Peter Czipott (1954-) in 2002, the pair translating many of Kosztolányi's works in the subsequent years. The present volume was nearly complete at the time of Ridland's passing.

The selection of poems in this volume aims to present Kosztolanyi's poetry through the length of his career, illustrating the evolution of the form and style of his verse. It additionally seeks to reflect the importance of certain recurring themes in his oeuvre, particularly his acute awareness of death's presence.

Ridland and Czipott have always approached the verse translator's task seeking to achieve a balance between fidelity to the original poem's semantic and affective content and to the salient aspects of its form, always with the goal of yielding an English poem of impact and appeal.

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Paru le : 16/12/2025

Thématique : Poésie auteurs étrangers

Auteur(s) : Auteur : Dezsö Kosztolanyi

Éditeur(s) : L'Harmattan
L'Harmattan Hongrie
Kàroli Gàspàr University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

Collection(s) : Collection Karoli

Contributeur(s) : Traducteur : John M. Ridland - Traducteur : Peter V. Czipott - Préfacier : Csaba Horváth

Série(s) : Non précisé.

ISBN : 978-2-336-47982-8

EAN13 : 9782336479828

Reliure : Broché

Pages : 165

Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm

Épaisseur: 0.9 cm

Poids: 260 g