The Life and Poetry of Miklos Radnoti - Essays

Miklos Radnoti (1909-1944), Hungary's classicist-avant-garde poet, was also a prolific translator and editor who wrote some of his greatest poems in the labour camps and copper mines of Yugoslavia before being killed by the Nazis at an early age. Leaving behind a body of work that ranks with the classics of Hungarian verse, his influence is now being felt among a younger generation. This collection of the proceedings of the Radnoti Memorial Conference explores such topics as neo-classicism and avant-garde in Radnoti's work, Radnoti and the Bible, and his relationship to modern writers and the ancients.