Winter Night: Selected Poems of Attila Jozsef

by Attila József, John Bátki (Translator)

Overview

In pure lyrics and longer elegiac poems this great Hungarian poet inscribed not only his own sad fate but that of millions in an Eastern Europe that only nominally “between the wars” during the ‘20s and 30s. Translator Bátki demonstrates how contemporary this work remains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780932440785
Publisher:	Oberlin College Press
Publication date:	11/30/1997
Series:	FIELD Translation Series , #23
Edition description:	Trans. from the Hungarian
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Translator’s Introduction • Attila József: Curriculum Vitae (1937) • Chronology • 1923 • A Tired Man • Glassmakers • Diamond • 1924 • And We Keep Looking for Justice • Disabled Veterans • For Seven Days • A Just Man • That’s Not Me Shouting • The Dog • A Fine Summer Evening • 1925 • Wind-Riding Bird • With a Pure Heart • Spring Mud • April 11 • In Fog, in Silence • On Evening Clouds • Attila József • Without Knocking • 1926 • Worker • Conjuring the Lion • To Sit, To Stand, To Kill, To Die • The Ant • In the End • Bells • My Funeral • 1927 • Introduction • Encouraging • Postcard from Paris • O Europe • Epitaph • 1928 • Dappled • Aron József • Pearl • Coral Beads • Glimmering Rose • Medallions • 1929 • Medallion • The Rain Falls • Tiszazug • Woodcutter • 1930 • Summer • Grief • 1931 • Mother • 1932 • Wasteland • Frost • Night in the Slums • Rain • In the Fields • The Seventh • Trees • The Net • 1933 • A Child Is Crying • Winter Night • Without Hope • Yellow Grasses • On the City’s Edge • Elegy • Ode • Freight Trains • 1934 • Summer Afternoon • Consciousness • Village • Terror • 1935 • On the Pavement • Lullaby • I Open a Door • Modern Sonnet • Humans • Be a Fool! • I Did Not Know • Guilt • A Breath of Air! • Belated Lament • 1936 • When the Moon Shines • On Freud’s Eightieth Birthday • By the Danube • As in a Field • It Hurts a Lot • Firewood • 1937 • FLORA 1. Hexameters • 2. Mysteries • For Flora • March, 1937 • Birthday Poem • An Ancient Rat • Long Ago • When Your Soul • A Last I Understand My Father • I Saw Beauty • Dusk • You Brought a Stake • Here, at Last, I Found My Home • Only You Should Read My Poems