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24. Apr. 2007 · A notable European intellectual’s path from persecution, exile and privation to the status of spokesman for his embattled country’s resiliency. Born in 1933, Konrád grew up among a well-to-do middle-class Jewish family supported by his father’s hardware store, until the Nazis’ approach persuaded the Hungarian government to capitulate ...
17. Apr. 2007 · To read A Guest in My Own Country is to experience the recent history of East-Central Europe from the inside. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JAN 22, 2007 This powerful, highly literary memoir by a world-famous author essayist and novelist Konr d was elected president of International PEN in 1990 discursively traces his life as a Hungarian child during the Holocaust, and later as a student during the ...
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Offering lively descriptions of both his private and public life in Budapest, New York, and Berlin, Konrad reflects insightfully on his role in the Hungarian Uprising, the notion of "internal emigration" – the fate of many writers who, like Konrad, refused to leave the Eastern Bloc under socialism – and other complexities of European identity. To read A Guest in My Own Country is to ...
A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe's most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that occasionally border on the surreal (as when a dead German soldier begins to speak ...
