Eternal Monday by Gyrgy Petri
Gyorgy Petri (1943-2000) belonged to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the uprising of 1956. He made his name in the West as the most uncompromising and outrageous of his countrys dissident authors. At home he was as often praised for his strangely disquieting love poetry, which is harsh, erotic and disenchanted.
Petri is a lyrical poet who has deliberately gone sour… His love poems are his finest work: sad, dry-eyed, even cruel, but spiced with a bitter tenderness…He is the voice of his generationTo understand him is to understand the declining years of European Communism and to sharpen our eyes for intimate half-truths of our own. -- George Szirtes * Times Literary Supplement *
It is a long time since a major verse satirist has emerged in any European language. That is what Petri is, and he combines an almost Juvenalian savagery with a striking range of techniques and genres. His bile is the product of injustice and moral outrage. He is funny, angry, sexy, morbid, disillusioned and wildly intelligent. -- Clive Wilmer
It is a long time since a major verse satirist has emerged in any European language. That is what Petri is, and he combines an almost Juvenalian savagery with a striking range of techniques and genres. His bile is the product of injustice and moral outrage. He is funny, angry, sexy, morbid, disillusioned and wildly intelligent. -- Clive Wilmer
Györgi Petri (1943-2000) was a leading Hungarian poet, writer, translator. He studied Hungarian literature and philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University. From 1975 to 1988 his works were banned; his poetry appeared only in samizdat and abroad. Between 1981 and 1989 he was editor of the samizdat newspaper Beszélő. After the regime change he became member of the editorial board of the cultural monthly Holmi. He was one of the founders of the Digital Literary Academy. Bloodaxe published two editions of his poetry translated by George Gömöri and Clive Wilmer, Night Song of the Personal Shadow: Selected Poems (1991) and Eternal Monday: New & Selected Poems (1999).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852245047 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852245042 |
| Title | Eternal Monday |
| Author | György Petri |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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