Books

László Cholnoky (Veszprém, 1879 - Budapest, 1929), who quickly changed his rural life for Budapest, but did not finish his academic studies, made a living from writing from the age of twenty-seven.
He was a daily newspaper journalist, and in his last decade he worked for Nyugat, a writer who lived on the income from his fiction alone. He is one of the so-called "fog riders" of Hungarian literature, discovered at the end of the 20th century, and today's readers can recognise him, for example, as Péter Hajnóczy's predecessor.

The autobiographical diary of Jenő Cholnoky (1870-1950), an internationally renowned geologist born in Veszprém, is a fascinating read. Those interested in history, literature and geography will all find interesting stories, descriptions and anecdotes in it. The lives of the two literary brothers Cholnoky (Viktor and László) were full of adventures and successes, but not of any significant scientific achievements. His popularity in his time was due precisely to his sympathetic lecturing skills, and it was no accident that he was a pioneer of scientific dissemination in our country. In addition to the biographical text, this volume contains illustrative pictures of the author, who has always remained a native of Veszprém.

The essays in this volume are an examination of the situation in Central and Eastern Europe covering the Slavic cultures of the South. They draw on all the experiential orientations that have significantly influenced the work of the featured writers, artists and theorists.

Kántás's current book contains a biography of András Petőcz, a list of his works and a selection of his receptions.

After the analyses and reviews Kántás's current book contains a biography of András Petőcz, a list of his works and a selection of his receptions.

The volume consists of several cycles, containing selected poems by Ádám Faludi, in several of which there are poems with pictures or pictorial parts as inserts or as independent elements. The cycle entitled Operations in the Basement 1990-1991 required a different page layout than usual, as the titles had to appear at the end/underneath of the poems in accordance with the poet's ideas.

"Zoltán Sándor is one of the leading prose writers of contemporary Hungarian literature in Vojvodina. His novels are characterised by an merciless social realism, with stories of little people who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in hopeless situations, young people doing their military service, interethnic relations, conflict situations, alienation, the crisis of the family institution and the emigration that has fundamentally transformed Hungarian society in the South....

The author, who works as a literary historian at the University of Szeged, has published a new book of interviews. The subtitle of the compilation is Conversations with Authors from Vojvodina: Magdolna Danyi, Pál Böndör, Ottó Fenyvesi, Kálmán Jódal, József Benes, Katalin Ladik, Attila Csernik, Béla Csorba, László Végel, Orsolya Bencsik, Zoltán Szűgyi, István Szajkó and Alpár Losoncz.

Balázs Kántás, a literary historian has made available to our publisher a book of studies. In the first major block of his book the young specialist deals with the oeuvre of the German poet Paul Celan (1920-1970) in great depth. In smaller units he analyses in depth the lyrical and literary theoretical work of István Géher, György Rába, Ildikó Józan, Erika Szepes, Csaba Szigeti, Márton Soltész, András Kappanyos, Gábor Bezeczky, Zoltán Zsávolya and András Veres.

The book contains his writings on the exhibitions, phenomena and processes of our visual art life in our region and our surroundings.

The book includes essays on Imre Madách, Kálmán Mikszáth, Mór Jókai, Károly Eötvös, János Batsányi and Gyula Krúdy. But Mihály Praznovszky did not limit himself to literature before the world wars; like the above-mentioned, he also surprises his readers with many interesting and novel facts when he examines the life of Attila József or Tibor Déry, who lived in Veszprém and on Lake Balaton.

"...The great mystery of poetry is how the personal can appear universal. How we can believe that the long-buried loves and enemies of poets of old are still our friends and contemporaries. Why do we feel cosmic about (perhaps) the most original of all, the love poems?..."

"Life is a mysterious flux, so that what comes from it cannot be more than a mysterious flux. "This is the flower of Hans Arp's garden before me, with petals of all kinds of greetings. Poetry is also a mysterious floral, I read in the greeting sent from the time of creation. - We usually know who we are, I continue, but already the booming words of the proclaimer from the balcony of the Hungarian Pimodan are dying: - I come from the last century, the ladies-and-gentlemen, from where the infinite meet in the parallel.....

Tömöry's The Daughters of Mrs Bodón is not a novel in verse...

"Ottó Fenyvesi's book is a collection of essays and reminiscences about his former masters, teachers, friends, a country lost in the mire of history and rock and roll. The essay was the defining genre of the artists who emerged around the New Symposion magazine. An essay is a piece of writing in which the subject is not primarily an object of academic analysis or critical evaluation, but a cause and a way for the essayist to subjectively articulate, debate and affirm certain principles of general interest and validity......

The József Attila Prize-winning poet Ottó Fenyvesi is as much a classic of collage as of literary genres. Several volumes of his collages have been published as part of his work, following his years at the New Symposium and in Veszprém.

This is the seventh in a series of six volumes in the author's tramp-book series, The Vagabond Promenade. The final, concluding volume in the series.
In this work Mihály Sarusi finds his own Holy Land in the Carpathian Basin, the narrowest homeland of the Hungarian nation - perhaps not by chance - the Great Plain, his birthplace.

József Sebő, the literary critic gave the subtitle to his book of studies: Veszprém as the antipole of Széphalom. From the title and subtitle it is clear that the book takes us to the language renewal era of the early 19th century.

Text on the back cover:

"Living in a minority is generally not pleasant. The majority does everything in its power to eliminate this unpleasantness - by assimilating minorities violently or merely carelessly. Since most of the world's states are multi-ethnic and therefore multilingual countries, this process affects many peoples.....

The album contains a wealth of colour reproductions of Ágnes Kulcsár's work, which are set in the context of contemporary Hungarian art with professional, evaluative texts. Art historians, fellow artists and colleagues speak about the protagonist, her works and her periods.

In Ottó Fenyvesi's new poems we see the world as an electronic village.

The volume planned for the author's sixtieth birthday has become a selection of poems left behind. Instead of a backbone of a career, of works that sought balance and created equilibrium, what was left was a succession of carefully dated poems, barely a booklet, imbued with anxiety, hope, irony, external and internal anguish.

In this work I attempt to depict the destruction of the Hungarian village of Temeskoz, its assimilation, forced flight and struggle for survival. My hero is a young peasant boy, who is ostracised at home and suffers a thousand disadvantages because of his nationality.

With the publication of this volume László Fábián's trilogy The Man of Pain, The Man of Trouble and now The Man of Joy is complete.

Edited by József Jankovics and Erzsébet Schiller the volume was conceived as a critical edition of Ányos' literary oeuvre in 2007.

A life journey unfolds from the poems in this volume: the journey of a man leaving his village behind, trying his luck in the city, but unable to find a home.

From the back cover of the book:

"The stories made available here are taken from Radio Jam's former Fairytale City series read by Csaba Hordós. The ephemeral sounds have now become permanent letters and are offered in book form to all those for whom the magic of fantasy still means something...

... The possible symbiosis between philosophy and literature is one of the main issues around which these writings are explored. Can a philosophical text be read as literature and vice versa?

"Citeras, herons, wild geese, thatched cottages, deer, stars, flowers, grasses, books, strings of beads, balladry obscurities and gloomy moods are interspersed with gestural elements of dadaism; not even counterpointing them. Sometimes Fenyvesi's poem seems to be one big misordering, in which everything is thrown into a heap, indicating that there are no values in this world, at most the event, the negative imprint of experience is the worthlessness, the turning into rubble" (Tibor Zalán)

This book is the autobiography of Ernő Mészáros, a renowned academic and climate scientist.

This book is the second volume of György Bodosi's short stories.

"...The central motif of his poetry then became Amorgos, where the author realized the path of poetic fulfilment..."

Acts and sufferings of light
Goethe's colour theory in everyday life

Jenő Gutheil, Dezső Laczkó, Jenő Cholnoky are iconic figures of Veszprém between the two wars. Their scientific work is exemplary to this day. We must show our respect for them from time to time. The city community intended the reprint of Jenő Gutheil's writing on the age of St. Imre to be such a sign. The original of the faximile booklet was published in 1930.

The volume contains the extended written material of the presentations of the conference entitled "Renaissance Monuments of Veszprém". It was published on 18 September 2008, the day of the scientific programme organised as the closing event of the Renaissance Year 2008 in Veszprém.

László Fábián (Zsennye, 1940), writer, poet, aesthete, editor, introduces his book with the following words: