Mar 28, 2025 There is something waiting to break out below the surface of the everyday in these poems. In “River of Sounds,” the river, literal and metaphorical, is in spate. What will its … wrinkled bed carry on the sludge? Time and again bodies […]
04/10/2023 Our reporter Gill James reviews The Bat at the New Adelphi Studio, on the University of Salford campus. The New Adelphi Theatre is an exciting space on the campus of the University of Safford and so it was rewarding to be invited to its studio, […]
Groundbreaking collections from Diane Seuss; a reckoning with trauma; reflections on Hungary in crisis; and love and loss. By Rebecca Tamás. The Guardian, 01. 02. 2025 | Saturday
TÓTH KRISZTINA Date: February 19, 2024 Author: lizzysiddal8 Comments Translated from Hungarian by Peter Sherwood Shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 15 short stories which may or may not be interconnected by a protagonist growing up in the communist Hungary. Read this as […]
https://roughghosts.com/ When one speaks of a short story collection as “loosely linked” there is often the implication that some kind of continuous theme, or even set of characters, connecting the individual pieces to a greater or lesser extent. Krisztina Tóth’s debut collection, Barcode, originally published in […]
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 […]