The Monkey and other stories

The Monkey and other stories
Miklos Banffy, Thomas Sneddon
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4 May 2021 UK
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9781905131907
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Born in Transylvania in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,Miklos Banffy lived to witness both the zenith of that Empire and its fall. The short stories in this collection, from the tale of the idle young man dawdlingpleasantly in Venice to the Romanian villager meditating revenge on histormentor, draw on the author' s experiences of life, love, sacrifice, betrayal andcourage, and reveal, as a recurring leitmotif, an indomitable will to survive. The translator, Thomas Sneddon, lives in Budapest where he teachestranslation at the Peter Pazmany University.
Born in 1873 into one of Transylvania' s longest-established noble families. He studied law and embarked on a political career (serving as Hungary' s Foreign Minister in 1921-2) but his inclinations were always artistic and he made a name for himself as a literary editor, as manager of the Hungarian Opera and as a talented designer of theatre sets and costumes. It is as a writer that he is best known: his Transylvanian Trilogy is one of the great works of twentieth-century European literature. When Europe' s borders were redrawn after the First World War, Transylvania was assigned to Romania and though Banffy took Romanian citizenship, he lost his land after the new national reforms. Following the Second World War, the communist regime blocked his ability to publish his writings. In 1949 he left Romania for Budapest, where he died in 1950. These are the first published works by an exciting new translator, Thomas Sneddon. Born in Ireland, he completed an MA in translation at Queen' s University, Belfast. He currently lives and works in Budapest. Tom Sneddon' s translations are endorsed by Thomas Barcsay, Professor Emeritus (Department of History) at Ryerson University, Toronto. He is the great-nephew of Miklos Banffy. Praising the quality of the translation, Barcsay says: Hungarian is a notoriously concise language and Miklos Banffy' s prose is more compact than most. To discover the subtle layers of meaning underlying the text and to render these in English without ignoring the hint of lyricism which infuses them requires both talent and sophistication. Thomas Sneddon' s outstanding translation shows that he possesses these qualities in abundance.
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ISBN-13: 9781905131907
Published: 4 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Blue Guides
Publisher: Blue Guides
Format: Paperback
Height: 174mm
Width: 115mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 192

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