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 Under the Frog - Tibor Fischer
Newest Review: ... is heading west or east, after one of his antics threatens to land him in seriously hot water. However irksome the society in ... more  ... which Gyuri lives, however alarming his occasional brushes with the Hungarian secret police, the AVO, somehow one senses that his inertia and detachment are such that he will never bring himself to take decisive action. Life will never be quite bad enough for that. Instead, left to himself, he would mature into a mildly disgruntled middle age, complaining but still contriving to make the best of whatever fate threw his way.
But he is not left to himself. Two things happen: he meets and falls in love with Jadwiga, a ...more |
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Under the Frog - Tibor Fischer: Out from Under (1777 words)
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Fifty years ago this week, the Hungarian uprising was being brutally suppressed. ____________________________________________ In Hungary "under a frog's arse down a coalmine" is a proverbially uncomfortable place to be, and a situation well worth avoiding. It was, nevertheless, where the country figuratively found itself as World War Two drew to a close and the Soviets moved in to install a puppet dictatorship. The dozen years between "liberation" by the Red Army and the heroic but ill-fated anti-Communist uprising of Autumn 1956 provide the backdrop for Tibor Fischer's first and best novel, Under The ... Read the complete review
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