Winter Night

by Jozsef, Attila; Batki, John

• ISBN13: 9780932440785
• ISBN10: 0932440789
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Oberlin College Pr

Summary

In pure lyrics and longer elegiac poems this great Hungarian poet inscribed not only his own sad fate but that of millions in an Eastern Europe that only nominally "between the wars" during the '20s and 30s. Translator Bátki demonstrates how contemporary

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	ix
Attila Jozsef: Curriculum Vitae (1937)	xiii
Chronology	xvii
1923
A Tired Man	1	(1)
Glassmakers	2	(1)
Diamond	3	(1)
1924
And We Keep Looking for Justice	4	(1)
Disabled Veterans	5	(1)
For Seven Days	6	(1)
A Just Man	7	(1)
That's Not Me Shouting	8	(1)
The Dog	9	(1)
A Fine Summer Evening	10	(1)
1925
Wind-Riding Bird	11	(1)
With a Pure Heart	12	(1)
Spring Mud	13	(1)
April 11	14	(2)
In Fog, in Silence	16	(2)
On Evening Clouds	18	(1)
Attila Jozsef	19	(1)
Without Knocking	20	(1)
1926
Worker	21	(1)
Conjuring the Lion	22	(1)
To Sit, To Stand, To Kill, To Die	23	(1)
The Ant	24	(1)
In the End	25	(1)
Bells	26	(1)
My Funeral	27	(1)
1927
Introduction	28	(1)
Encouraging	29	(1)
Postcard from Paris	30	(1)
O Europe	31	(1)
Epitaph	32	(1)
1928
Dappled	33	(1)
Aron Jozsef	34	(1)
Pearl	35	(1)
Coral Beads	36	(1)
Glimmering Rose	37	(1)
Medallions	38	(3)
1929
Medallion	41	(1)
The Rain Falls	42	(1)
Tiszazug	43	(1)
Woodcutter	44	(1)
1930
Summer	45	(1)
Grief	46	(1)
1931
Mother	47	(1)
1932
Wasteland	48	(2)
Frost	50	(1)
Night in the Slums	51	(3)
Rain	54	(1)
In the Fields	55	(1)
The Seventh	56	(2)
Trees	58	(1)
The Net	59	(1)
1933
A Child Is Crying	60	(2)
Winter Night	62	(3)
Without Hope	65	(1)
Yellow Grasses	66	(1)
On the City's Edge	67	(3)
Elegy	70	(2)
Ode	72	(4)
Freight Trains	76	(1)
1934
Summer Afternoon	77	(1)
Consciousness	78	(4)
Village	82	(2)
Terror	84	(3)
1935
On the Pavement	87	(1)
Lullaby	88	(1)
I Open a Door	89	(1)
Modern Sonnet	90	(1)
Humans	91	(1)
Be a Fool!	92	(1)
I Did Not Know	93	(1)
Guilt	94	(2)
A Breath of Air!	96	(2)
Belated Lament	98	(2)
1936
When the Moon Shines	100	(1)
On Freud's Eightieth Birthday	101	(1)
By the Danube	102	(3)
As in a Field	105	(1)
It Hurts a Lot	106	(3)
Firewood	109	(2)
1937
Flora
Hexameters	110	(1)
Mysteries	110	(1)
For Flora	111	(2)
March, 1937	113	(2)
Birthday Poem	115	(2)
An Ancient Rat	117	(2)
Long Ago	119	(1)
When Your Soul	120	(1)
At Last I Understand My Father	121	(2)
I Saw Beauty	123	(1)
Dusk	124	(1)
You Brought a Stake	125	(1)
Here, at Last, I Found My Home	126	(1)
Only You Should Read My Poems	127