Tamás Szamuely's Other Publications

Other Publications

They appeared in Hungarian literary journals. I give bibliographic references and short résumés in English.

„Ettõl még a nagy cél nem unódik meg”. Tétékás Nyúz, 2010.03.10.
An interview with me conducted by Anna Mécs.

A tegnap visszaadása. Két kortárs olasz mûrôl. Pannonhalmi Szemle 7 (1999), No. 4. 113--119.
An anti-Postmodernist essay on the treatment of historic material in two contemporary Italian works: Umberto Eco's novel `The Island of the Day Before' and Luciano Berio's `Rendering'.

`Fuor del mar ho un mar in seno'. Theodor Storm Viharlovasáról. Jelenkor 38 (1995), No. 1. 78--84.
An analysis of Theodor Storm's Romantic novel `Der Schimmelreiter'. Inevitably, there is some discussion of water dams, then (and still) a hot topic in Hungary. The title is of course from Mozart's `Idomeneo', another great work about man and sea.

Heisenberg Goethérôl. Pannonhalmi Szemle 1 (1993), No. 3. 75--80.
A postscript accompanying my Hungarian translation of Werner Heisenberg's essay `Goethes Naturbild und die technisch-naturwissenschaftliche Welt' which appeared in the same volume of the journal.

A Valencia-nyomozás. Jelenkor 35 (1992), No. 11. 871--875. Reprinted in: Ottlik-emlékkönyv. Pesti Szalon, 1996, 207--216.
Some free thoughts about Géza Ottlik's old-age writing `the Valencia Mystery'. Featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Pater and Imre Lakatos.

`Földényi F. László: Melankólia'. Kortárs 36 (1992), No. 9. 115--117.
A review of László F. Földényi's (otherwise acclaimed) monograph on the cultural history of melancholy.

Egy ellen-mû margójára. Megjegyzések Adrian Leverkühn Faustus-kantátájához. Jelenkor 35 (1992), No. 7--8. 593--597.
A commentary of a fictitious musical work: the last tragic cantata of the composer Adrian Leverkühn described in Thomas Mann's novel `Doctor Faustus'. A demonstration of how Adorno is vanquished by Monteverdi.