Reading the 1956 Revolution:  The Themes of Ferenc Juhász’s Poem Évszakok (1957) in the Shadow of its English “Translations”.

Speaker: Peter Sherwood

Time: 4PM MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25

Location: TOY LOUNGE, DEY HALL

Sponsored by: The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Mr. Sherwood is currently the Hon. Senior Lecturer in Hungarian Language and Literature, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
University College of London

The presentation, four weeks ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, reconsiders a neglected poem by Ferenc Juhász (b. 1928) and shows how his despair is rooted not only in concern for his sick wife—as the English versions might suggest- -but perhaps even more profoundly in the events that shook his country in 1956-7—an aspect of the poem barely registered hitherto.

For more information, please contact Caleb Baker at caleb_baker@unc.edu.