Night Song of the Personal Shadow

Fülszöveg

'It is a long time since a major verse satirist has emerged in any European language. That is what Petri is, and he combines an almost Juvenalian savagery with a striking range of techniques and genres. Hts bile is the product of injustice and moral outrage. He is funny, angry, sexy, morbid, disillusioned and wildly intelligent'
- CLIVE WILMER
György Petri belongs to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the 1956 Uprising. Born in 1943, he published two collections with the state publishing house which brought him critical acclaim as well as prestige and privilege, but in 1982 he turned his back on official success. His third collection - and everything he has published since - was produced by an unofficial
samizdat publisher.
Many of Petri's poems are savage attacks on the political system of the Warsaw Pact countries, often in obscene and vituperative language, and his move to samizdat publication was a personal declaration of independence prompted by the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'It is a long time since a major verse satirist has emerged in any European language. That is what Petri is, and he combines an almost Juvenalian savagery with a striking range of techniques and genres. Hts bile is the product of injustice and moral outrage. He is funny, angry, sexy, morbid, disillusioned and wildly intelligent'
- CLIVE WILMER
György Petri belongs to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the 1956 Uprising. Born in 1943, he published two collections with the state publishing house which brought him critical acclaim as well as prestige and privilege, but in 1982 he turned his back on official success. His third collection - and everything he has published since - was produced by an unofficial
samizdat publisher.
Many of Petri's poems are savage attacks on the political system of the Warsaw Pact countries, often in obscene and vituperative language, and his move to samizdat publication was a personal declaration of independence prompted by the emergence of Solidarity in Poland and Hungary's determination'^to ignore it. Ideas of freedom have always been central to Petri's concerns, from the existentialism of his early work to the broader, political perspective of his more recent poetry. Freedom is seen in relation to sex and death. Sexuality is often the glass in which the nature
of freedom is disclosed, while death, the ultimate restraint, is evoted with a hnorbid fascination and black humour that are almost
medieval in feeling. . - .

mom Vissza