Sarasotai Magyar Hirmondó, 2002 (8. évfolyam, 1-9. szám)
2002-03-01 / 3. szám
THE MESSENGER Newsletter of the Kossuth Club March, 2002. Vol. 8. No. 3. Hungarian Art in America. The Palm Beach International Art and Antique Fair was held for the sixth year from January 31 to February 10 at the Norton Museum of Art. Each year the fair has grown in both exhibitor stature and critical recognition and now draws an audience of thousands of connoisseurs, designers, curators, and art dealers as well as the interested public and press. For the first time this year exhibitors from Budapest participated in this prestigious event. The elegant catalogue featured paintings by József Rippl-Rónai and Péter Rátz exhibited by the Kieselbach Gallery. The Messenger at the National Library. The National Széchényi Library in Budapest tries to obtain Hungarian publications from around the world to store them in a permanent repository. They asked for back issues of the Kossuth Club’s newsletter Hírmondó to make it accessible to future generations of readers and researchers. The first seven volumes of the newsletter containing about 300 pages were sent to the Library. Posthumous World Fame. A novel by the late Hungarian writer Sándor Márai (1900- 1989), first published in Budapest in 1942, was translated into German and English and is gaining widespread critical acclaim in Europe and in the United States. The Hamburger Abendblatt hails the book as a “literary rediscovery of the first rank. ” Die Zeit enthuses “twentieth-century literature has received the posthumous gift of a new master whom in the future we will rank with Stefan Zweig... Thomas Mann... Franz Kafka... ” Knopf in New York published the English translation, entitled “Embers” in 2001, and, encouraged by the success of the book is translating “the significant body of work” of Márai into English. Election Results. The membership unanimously re-elected the Kossuth Club Board of Directors at the January meeting. The March Program: Remembering Lajos Kossuth. You are cordially invited to join us in the Selby Public Library Auditorium (1331 First Street, Sarasota) Thursday March 28 at 4:00 p. m, for an evening of song, poetry and reminiscences of the 19. Century Hungarian statesman Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) after whom our club is named. Actordirector Károly Sziki and musician Viola Szabó (violin, lute, zither) will give the program. We are asking for voluntary contributions to help defray the travel expenses of the artists from Eger, Hungary. 4
