How to hide a poem (II)
Listening time: under 5 minutes. This disturbing quotation is striking on several levels. By the Hungarian poet György Faludy concerning...
Use your imagination
The path to hell, we've been told, is paved with good intentions.
Faludy, a renowned poet and writer, is given...
Uncle, who are you?
A delightful exchange between the boy György Faludy, and a friend, or at least acquaintance, of his grandfather's. I loved...
Beware educated peasants
Naive readers may imagine that an ideology ostensibly serving the masses might have been glad to encounter an educated peasant. ...
Oh, for dog’s sake!
Listening time: 5 minutes. A touching account of mutual support and succour between labour camp prisoners and some of the...
Are we there yet?
A one-liner which would be funny if it weren't for the fact it earned Uncle Torma a one-way ticket to...
Which way the wind blows
In totalitarian systems, there is no limit to the perversity and pettiness of mind which can land you in a...
A bulwark against brain-washing
Listening time: under 9 minutes. Sadly, some things in the state of the world are driving me to spend more...
Beware the sunset (especially if it’s beautiful)
A striking example of the tendency of totalitarian ideologies to corrupt the mind: no-one means what they say, nothing is...
Quite the character
At first glance, Florian Wrangel sounds like the kind of person you'd love to have as an occasionally visiting uncle,...
With curiosity and cheerfulness
How innocent this phrase, and yet, look at the context. Having left Hungary on the eve of the Second World...
Now, what shall I write?
The Hungarian poet György Faludy (1910-2006) decides what to write on the eve of his execution. In the event, he...
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