Research Catalog

Title

Postcard from London : and other stories / Iván Mándy ; translated by John Batki.

Author

Mándy, Iván

Publication

• London : Seagull Books, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Bátki, John

Description

334 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Ivan Mandy (1918-1995) has been called "the prose poet of Budapest," and this volume of short stories presents the first comprehensive collection of his work in English. His early oeuvre created an urban mythology full of picaresque characters inhabiting the seedier neighborhoods of the city: its flea-market stalls, second-run cinemas, and old-fashioned coffeehouses. The stories from the later decades of Mandy's life, often bordering on the absurd, introduce many autobiographical elements spun around the author's alter-ego, Janos Zsamboky, whose hapless adventures on a rare trip abroad constitute this group of stories, including "Postcard from London." Mandy's unique style at times borrows techniques from films and radio plays, his quirky cuts creating a flicker of images seen in the mind's eye. Memory and perception, time and place spin in narrative legerdemain that invites and rewards the reader's active participation.

Series Statement

The Hungarian list

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• Hungarian list.

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

Short stories, Hungarian

Genre/Form

Short stories.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Hungarian.

Call Number

JFE 22-576

ISBN

• 9780857428868
• 0857428861

OCLC

1298921257

Author

Mándy, Iván, author.

Title

Postcard from London : and other stories / Iván Mándy ; translated by John Batki.

Publisher

London : Seagull Books, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Hungarian list

Hungarian list.

Language

Translated from the Hungarian.

Added Author

Bátki, John, translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-576