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Forced March
Forced March: Selected Poems | Miklós Radnóti, Clive Wilmer
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Dilara
Forced March: Selected Poems | Miklós Radnóti, Clive Wilmer
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I've just finished Miklós Radnóti's selected poems, some of which were found in his pocket when his body was exhumed from the mass grave into which he and other Jewish slave laborers were buried after their murder in 1944.
They were competently translated (I read them in French) and very moving.

On a lighter note, don't you think he looks a bit like Andy Samberg?

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Dilara ⬇The poems drew heavily on Virgil's Eclogues and also referenced modern poets. It is pretty clear Radnóti was part of an international circle: he spent time in Paris and translated French, Latin and German works. He mentions people, and especially poets, from different parts of the world, from Garcia Lorca to the African-American poet John Love, murdered by the KKK. He was antifascist, of course. 2y
Lunakay He does look a bit like him, agreed! 2y
Dilara @Lunakay Someone agrees 😠😋 2y
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Dilara
Forced March: Selected Poems | Miklós Radnóti, Clive Wilmer
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Here's my choice for July's #Hungary read: a poetry collection by Miklós Radnóti, a celebrated Hungarian poet, murdered by the SS in 1944.
On the food side, I don't know what I'm going to cook yet, but here's the Gundel cookbook, picked up when we stayed in Budapest for a week a few years ago :-) We had a nice lunch at Gundel's and learned how to make goulash in a restaurant inside a market 😋

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Texreader So jealous! You‘ve been to Budapest! And took a cooking class there!! 2y
Catsandbooks That's so cool! 🇭🇺 2y
Dilara @Texreader This was one of the highlights of our stay! My daughter was a stroppy tween/teen at the time, and not easily pleased, but she really enjoyed this class. She got to wear a cook's hat! And she willingly ate all the vegetables in her bowl of goulash at the end! 2y
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