Magyar News, 2003. szeptember-2004. augusztus (14. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
2004-05-01 / 9. szám
phere and life of the city. In the 1930s the English Patrick Leigh Fermor gives us a best seller on the city. The bad times were written about by Miklós Radnóti, Attila József, and Jenő Thassy. Stuck between was Simon Bourgin from Time Magazine, continued by Sándor Csoóri, István Örkényi and ended with István Vas’ autobiographical poem. These events are organized by the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York. The performance is done by the Threshold Theater, directed by Pamella Billig and Jenő Brogyányi The actors were Nancy Nichols and Joel Leffert, presenting as if they lived their life in Budapest. From the audience there was a request to subscribe to the English language Magazine. Here is the address: The Hungarian Quarterly Naphegy Tér 8, 1121 Budapest, Hungary Page 6 Miklós Vajda, editor of the English Language Hungarian Quarterly Left: The audience gathering at the Westport Library. Bottom row: Members of the Threshold Theater. Left: Jenő Brogyányi; center: Nancy Nichols; right.Joel Leffert One taste and you wist) you pad more of it. Not every day do people who frequent libraries receive an exciting showing of Hungarian literature - in English. We, in Connecticut, had the pleasure to enjoy such a a treat twice, recently. First, the Fairfield Library, and now the Westport Library hosted such an event. The editor of the English language magazine The Hungarian Quarterly, Miklós Vajda, brings along from Budapest outstanding pieces of writings. This time it was about “Budapest, Invincible City in the Heart of Europe”. Miklós Vajda gave an overview of the history of the city. A city that was destroyed many times during the past millennium. The Tartars, Turks, then in modem times the job was done by Germans, Soviets, in between some American super bombs. Suffered through two World Wars. The list could still go on. Despite all this Budapest rose from the ashes and for hundreds of years was called “The Pearl of the Danube”. Starting with the Italian Antonio Bonfini of the fifteenth century, followed by Dietz and Schulhof’s writings. Then a group of Hungarians as János Lukács’s book BUDAPEST 1900; Gyula Krúdy, Lajos Nagy, Sándor Márai give the átmos-
