CONTENTS

Introduction to the Bastard Novel (Extract)
László Végel

Poems, translated by Daniel Hoffman
Magda Székely

Who Was Alexander Lenard?
An Interview with Klára Szerb

A Day in the Invisible House (Extracts)
Alexander Lenard

The Klára Szerb-Alexander Lenard Correspondence
The 1965 Letters: A Selection
Péter Siklós

Workdays and Wonders
András Beck

Hungary in the Older English Literature
Antal Szerb

I N T E R V I E W

Why Won't He Tell a Proper Story?
Imre Kertész in Conversation with Zsigmond Sándor Papp

C L O S E - U P

Schengen Blues
Gábor Miklósi

A R T

A Plea for Vaszary
Ilona Sármány-Parsons

The Irony of Frigyes Kőnig
Julianna P. Szucs

S C I E N C E

Edward Teller-Guardian of Freedom or Dr. Strangelove?
István Hargittai

Memory and History: Visiting Edward Teller
Tibor Frank

Major Players (István Hargittai)
János Kirz

B O O K S & A U T H O R S

All That Fall: Upsides of the Shorter Fictions of Imre Kertész
Tim Wilkinson

Eternal Operetta (András Gerő, Dorottya Hargitai and Tamás Gajdó)
Ivan Sanders

T H E A T R E & F I L M

The War of All Against All (László Márton, György Spiró)
Tamás Koltai

Telling Stories Would Be a Good Start (The 39th Hungarian Film Week)
Shane Danielsen in Conversation with Dávid Dercsényi

From a Tower, Darkly (Béla Tarr)
Erzsébet Bori

M U S I C

Emilie (Merian)-Genast, Liszt's Confidante
Klára Hamburger

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