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Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti

Zsuzsanna Ozsváth

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One of Hungary's leading poetic voices of the 20th century, Midlos Radnoti wrote some of his country's most cherished love poems and political verse even as he anticipated death under the Nazis. This English-only edition presents many of the poems that appear in his Foamy Sky volume and a selection of others dating back to 1929. A good portion of the poems were written during World War II, when Radnoti, of Jewish descent, was forced into a slave-labour squad and sent to work building roads in the Balkans. On the final march through Hungary toward Austria near the end of the war, the guards murdered the disabled prisoners who had not already died en route and buried the bodies in a mass grave. Radnoti's last written poems were found in the pocket of his coat when his body was exhumed.

Language: English

Pages: 188

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: August 02, 1992

ISBN: 0691015309

ISBN 13: 9780691015309

Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklós Radnóti

Zsuzsanna Ozsváth

4.5/5 ( ratings)

One of Hungary's leading poetic voices of the 20th century, Midlos Radnoti wrote some of his country's most cherished love poems and political verse even as he anticipated death under the Nazis. This English-only edition presents many of the poems that appear in his Foamy Sky volume and a selection of others dating back to 1929. A good portion of the poems were written during World War II, when Radnoti, of Jewish descent, was forced into a slave-labour squad and sent to work building roads in the Balkans. On the final march through Hungary toward Austria near the end of the war, the guards murdered the disabled prisoners who had not already died en route and buried the bodies in a mass grave. Radnoti's last written poems were found in the pocket of his coat when his body was exhumed.

Language: English

Pages: 188

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: August 02, 1992

ISBN: 0691015309

ISBN 13: 9780691015309

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