Forced march : selected poems / Miklós Radnóti ; translated from the Hungarian by Clive Wilmer and George Gömöri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radnóti, Miklós, 1909-1944.

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Radnóti, Miklós, 1909-1944.

Radnóti, Miklós.

World War, 1939-1945--Poetry.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

96 pages : portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Enitharmon : In association with The European Jewish Publication Society, 2003.

Summary:

Forced March is a new edition of Miklos Radnoti's (1909-1944) selected poems. By the time the Second World War broke out, he was already an established poet. When the Nazis took over his hometown of Budapest, he was sent to a labor camp at Bor in occupied Serbia. Then, in 1944, as the Germans retreated from the eastern front, Radnoti and his fellow laborers were force-marched back to Hungary. On November 9, too weak to carry on, he and many comrades were executed by firing squad. When the bodies were exhumed the following year, Radnoti was identified by a notebook of poems in his greatcoat pocket. These poems, published in 1946 as Foaming Sky, secured his position as one of the giants of modern Hungarian poetry.

ISBN:

190056453X

OCLC:

187705952