The Kiss: 20th Century Hungarian Short Stories

The present anthology comprises a piece each from thirty-one Hungarian writers, all of whom are well known in Hungary, and some of whom are read and loved in other parts of the world as well. From Endre Ady to Péter Esterházy, they have all made a unique contribution to the development of the 20th century Hungarian short story. Without them, neither the style nor the main preoccupations of Hungarian prose would be quite the same. From the tightly controlled phrasing of Ady to the seemingly loose, stream-of-consciousness style sentences of Mihály Kornis, from the grim world of the Hungarian puszta to the soccer games in the capital, this anthology, edited by István Bart, chronicles a turbulent and fascinating period of almost one-hundred years in the history—literary and otherwise—of Hungary.