Foreign Laughter
Foreign Laughter

Summary/Abstract: Pace was everything in the book. The pace was inevitable, the vision tragiccomic, but the comedy, if comedy it was, changed in the course of its passage through English. It was as if English did not tolerate such monumental slowpaced Hungarian bleaknesses without a certain irony, an irony that was implicit in the Hungarian text but grew a little in translation. The very notion of order was different. Order in Hungary means something rather Prussian or Soviet.

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