Authors articles

László Szilasi (Szeged)
Tuesday 29.05. 2012

PARANOIA

Calm down, dad. This is all a misunderstanding, a stupid coincidence, please, do not be angry. I did not pay attention to it, this is my fault entirely. Please, forgive me. We will choose Vanessa’s sign together, alright? We hate the stinking Jews here too.

László Szilasi (Szeged)
Saturday 11.02. 2012

Log

But what awaited him was a disappointment since the little sagacious Hungarian did not have some local brandy behind his back but a dried up Hungarian sausage, which the bird-like top professor did not like due to his gall problems. The Hungarian immediately spotted the disappointment in his eyes. Echte ungarishche Salami! he said. Echte ungarische Salami! was what he repeated despairingly, meanwhile waving the big Hungarian sausage in front of the bird-like Germans in embarrassment as though...

László Szilasi (Szeged)
Tuesday 18.10. 2011

WILD HUNGARIANS

“The two men were left completely alone in the end – as if they, being quieter and easy to manipulate, together with their ‘revolution’ in which they elected the current rightist government and their civilized social anti-Semitism had nothing to do with the fact that these two young Jewish men were forced into the type of hyperasimilation that was, because it evoked affiliation to the Hungarian people, so attractive and worthy of admiration. They did not even look at them. Only the Russian was...

László Szilasi (Szeged)
Wednesday 8.06. 2011

Anakin

“That is why everybody, both the homosexuals and homophobes, could precisely hear and understand without mistake—when the big mustache finally moved and the tightly closed lips opened—the policeman’s words which were said directly to the tattooed, invisible faces of the young Nazis with hoods: do not throw faggots. Do not. Throw. Faggots.”

(Szeged)

He is a literary historian, reviewer and prose writer. In addition, he is a professor at the Faculty of Arts in Szeged. He explores older Hungarian poetry and Hungarian prose from the 19th century, as well as modern literature. His first independent novel Szentek hárfája (The Harp of Saints), was published in 2010 by the publishing house Magvető.