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George Konrad. A Guest In My Own Country: A Hungarian Life.(Book review)
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GEORGE KONRAD. A GUEST IN MY OWN COUNTRY: A HUNGARIAN LIFE. TRANS. JIM TUCKLER. OTHER PRESS, 2007. 352 PP. PAPER: $15.95.
Konrad should have died, and after that, he should have left Hungary. He and his sister were able to escape their town in the great Hungarian puszsta for Budapest during the Second World War. All the other children died in the camps. Without exception. For the most part, his college classmates left to teach in American universities. "I wanted to know what was going on, in these streets," he writes in this memoir. "It was an unfinished story, and I refused ...
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George Konrad. A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life.(Book review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; George Konrad. A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life. Jim Tucker, tr. Michael Henry Heim...95. ISBN 978-1-59051-139-8 Even if George Konrad had failed--as he does not-- to wring...story is to be hard to forget. This George Konrad accomplishes in a seemingly casual...
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A Literary Lion in Winter
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; ...in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life, by George Konrad. Translated from the Hungarian by Jim Tucker. Edited...the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian Fascist movement that...in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life," the autobiography of...novelist and literary legend George ...
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Magazine article from: The New Leader
; A Feast in the Garden By George Konrad Translated by Imre Goldstein Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 394...the latest from the renowned Hungarian dissident and author George Konrad, is at once an elegant evocation of a Central European past...
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Minority report. (communism in Eastern Europe) (column)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...was born in year one of the Russian Revolution. When I ask George Konrad whether he really means to say that the whole experience...hard currency, and did so while retaining a power monopoly. George Konrad told me that the fetishization of Western consumer goods...
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Killer Intellectuals
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; STONEDIAL By George Konrad Translated from the Hungarian By Ivan Sanders Harcourt. 290 pp...of a wholesome Central European intellectual diet. In Stonedial George Konrad lays out quite a feast. The preeminent Hungarian writer's first...
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Hungarian rhapsody
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...the exit of history from their lives. The Hungarian author George Konrad has a character in one of his novels describe what happened...trust funds and inherited wealth." In a conversation with George Konrad, Blumenthal manages to bring out the flavor of what it was...
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A Guest in My Own CountryBOOKS/Nonfiction
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Tribune 05-04-2007 A Guest in My Own CountryA Hungarian LifeBy George Konrad. Translated by Jim Tucker. Edited by Michael Henry Heim...15.95. Other Press.*Reveiwed by Alan Riding*In the end, George Konrad was lucky. He alone among his Jewish classmates survived...
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Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; George Konrad. Stonedial. Ivan Sanders, tr. New York. Harcourt. 2000. 290 pages. $24. ISBN 0-15-100619-9. George (Gyorgy) Konrad's name is familiar...
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DEATHS
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
; Earl Konrad DWIGHT -- Earl George Konrad died peacefully in his apartment in the retirement community of The Canterbury in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., in the care of his...
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Despina Damalas | Lester P. Denbow Sr. | Dorothy Doris Dobbins | Delia M. Driscoll | Leota Lois Goldsworthy | Donald Fredrick Grant | Earl George Konrad | Muriel Margaret Labat | Vern L. Loveridge | Lt. Col. Robert G. McNary | Paulette Proios (Gill) | Merrell L. Sale | Phyllis M. Simpson | John William Wagoner
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; ...Hills Memorial Park. Visitation will be today from 10am to 12 noon at McNERNEY's Mortuary San Pedro (310) 832-8351 \STLnobit1\STLdnot,2\STLobbox,2 \STLobitart,konrad,,x Konrad, Earl George April 24, 1920 - October 13, 2003 Earl George Konrad died
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