Gabor Gyukics and Michael Castro read from "A Transparent Lion" English translations of poetry by Attila Jozef

MARCH 6, 7 PM

Hungarian Cultural Center
447 Broadway,
5th floor

Gabor G. Gyukics and Michael Castro read from A Transparent Lion, their new translation of of the poetry of Attila József.

This is an opportunity to experience the extraordinary poetry of Attila József -- April 11th, 1905–December 3rd, 1937.

In Hungary the name Attila József is today a synonym for "poet of the 20th century," as in the Romantic age the name Sándor Petőfi had been. József's restless spirit, his life rich in political turns, the craving for love that so often led him to despair, and his decision to commit suicide, all lurk in the depths of his works. Friend of Thomas Mann and Arthur Koestler, acolyte of and Baudelaire, in Eastern Europe József has become an iconic representative of the poet who resists the state. A founding member of the Hungarian Communist party who was purged by the Stalinists for excessive radicality, in the mid 1930s he came out as a syndicalist anarchist.