More One Minute Stories

By István Örkény

Second volume of Örkény's well-known "one-minute" prose translated from the Hungarian. --- [From the back of the book] "A one minute story by Örkény is an enigmatic something. It is not just short prose, it is a combination of many things, anecdote... short note, found object, tale, joke, parable, a little of everything." / "Örkeny does not tell it, he comes out and says it. What he writes is philosophy, but it is not abstract. It is witty, but not convivial. Keen, unsparing, brutal - poetic. Wry, elegant, consistent - in short, Hungarian" / "From time to time, the one minute stories resemble post-Auschwitz poems that can't be written" / "A sad, much suffering man, this is how I have always thought of him. That he is my contemporary. That he is an Eastern-European, so ab ovo, he knows a great deal. A great deal, and - ab ovo - not enough. I thought I could see all this on his heavy, furrowed, laughing face. He died in 1979, over twenty-five years ago. This is when we are most apt to forget a writer. Örkény is the great exception." (from the Preface by Péter Esterházy)

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 9631355233
• ISBN13: 9789631355239
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Corvina Books Ltd
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.