POR CAROL PASSOS EM BULA CONTEÚDO 25/10/2023 – 12:48 Krisztina Tóth é uma autora conhecida por descrever contradições e trazer à tona incômodos em uma sociedade multicultural e miscigenada que compõe o Leste Europeu. Em “Pixel”, primeiro livro da autora publicado no Brasil e editado pela DBA […]
By Cory Oldweiler „Barcode is animated by ideas of division, categorization, restriction, and isolation—none as emblematic as the lines that symbolize the imagined differences between the lived reality behind the Iron Curtain and the perception of prosperity in the West,” writes critic Cory Oldweiler. October 4, 2023 Hungary Book […]
A World beyond Our Reach: Isolation and Aspiration in Krisztina Tóth’s “Barcode” By Cory Oldweiler „Barcode is animated by ideas of division, categorization, restriction, and isolation—none as emblematic as the lines that symbolize the imagined differences between the lived reality behind the Iron Curtain and the perception of […]
Krisztina Tóth’s stories are rich in their explosions of moments, bursting of silences, and an ambience drifting over fate, as if the author can notice even a flick of air. The interconnected lives, intersected flashes of memories, the difficulty of realizing a personal dilemma and […]
By Daniel W. Pratt THERE IS a tradition of the best Central European novelists beginning as poets. Milan Kundera began as a poet, as did Bohumil Hrabal, Sándor Márai, and Olga Tokarczuk. None of their poetry has made as lasting an effect as that of […]
In the short stories that make up the collection Barcode by Krisztina Tóth, translated by Peter Sherwood (Jantar, 224 pp, £12), the discovery of the many devious ways in which reality confounds the merest expectation of joy is achieved repeatedly and ingeniously. In ‘The Pencil […]
Barney Bardsley’s review of Pixel by Krisztina Tóth (Seagull Books) in translation by Owen Good. The short story is a very particular art. With so much to convey, in so few words, the writer must work hard – and quickly. A satisfying short story has […]
Anna Blasiak reviews PIXEL by Krisztina Tóth This book offers a very intricate, highly precise collage of images, each capturing something about the times we live in. It shows various versions of the discontent and crises that have become the trademark of our era. Each […]
Pixel by Krisztina Toth Translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good Published by Seagull Books, 2019, 240 pages Review by Michael Stein for Transitions The premise in the title of Krisztina Toth’s interlinked book of short stories, Pixel, is of a work that when […]
Ursula Hurley, School of Arts and Media, The University of Salford , Salford Crescent, Greater Manchester M5 4WT, UK Szilvia Naray-Davey, Gustavo Cunha Araújo (Reviewing Editor) Article: 1426183 | Received 10 Jul 2017, Accepted 04 Jan 2018, Accepted author version posted online: 24 Jan 2018, Published online: […]
Publié: 11/04/2021 | Auteur: Passage à l’Est! |
Pixel by Krisztina Toth Translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good Published by Seagull Books, 2019, 240 pages by Michael Stein The premise in the title of Hungarian writer and translator Krisztina Toth’s interlinked book of short stories, Pixel, is of a work that when […]