Tag: Szabó Magda
Könyv: Pilátus (Szabó Magda) “Lehet, hogy ő is meghalt már, csak nem vette még észre? Lehet, hogy az ember hamarabb meghal, mint tudomást szerezne erről?” I couldn’t find an English edition, but it’s available in French, Spanish and German, these are for sure. And maybe other languages. I’m sorry if English is really not one of them, because it’s a life changing experience, I strongly recommend you to read it.
The Door, the movie based on Magda Szabó’s famous novel comes out this week in Hungary directed by Academy Award Winning director István Szabó (no relation, it’s a very common name in Hungary). Recently I was lucky enough to attend a public talk with István Szabó about the movie, the cast, the novel and some background stories. We learned that it wasn’t the director’s idea to make this movie, he was asked to do it. The Door is one of the late Magda Szabó’s most well-known pieces of work translated into 38 languages. It is also one of her autobiographical…
can’t wait szembogar: The Door – Official Trailer (2012) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
(Zsuzsának, főleg. :)) booklover: “Let me be. I don’t like it when you lecture me. If I ask for something and you give it, do it without preaching a sermon, otherwise there is no point…… I didn’t like my own secrets. I liked other people’s even less.” The Door is the second book I read by the Hungarian writer Magda Szabo. The first one was The Ballad of Iza which I had mentioned here before: http://booklover.tumblr.com/post/3719898528/the-ballad-of-iza-or-ballade-diza-la The Door combines the story of two women, a writer and her housekeeper. The housekeeper Emmerence is quite a character. She is full of…
