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Last Notes
Like gifted new writers such as David Bezmozgis and Jacqueline Baker, Tamas Dobozy brings a unique voice to a traditional form of fiction. This stunning new collection of stories shines with irony, wisdom and dark comedy as it explores the ways in which we come together and pull apart. Marked with a strong sense of the bonds of history, the pain of loneliness and the price of fidelity, Last Notes, Dobozy's second collection, plays the human condition at a perfect pitch. With stories such as "Tales of Hungarian Resistance" and "Four Uncles," Dobozy reveals the cultural no-man's land that many children of immigrants are trapped within. Other stories, including "The Inert Landscapes of György Ferenc" and "Last Notes," envision the complex connections between artistic vision and madness. "Into the Ring," a comic masterpiece, delivers a one-two satirical punch to the institution of marriage, as a couple settles its conflicts in the boxing ring. These are stories shot through with wit, profundity, a love of the absurd and a wide-ranging imagination. Tamas Dobozy is a writer to watch and to savour.
Siege 13
2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize — Winner 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award — Finalist, English-Language Fiction In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward. Siege 13 is a collection of thirteen linked stories about this terrible time in history, both its historical moment, but also later, as a legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors. Set in both Budapest before and after the siege, and in the present day – in Canada, the U.S., and parts of Europe – Siege 13 traces the ripple effect of this time on characters directly involved, and on their friends, associates, sons, daughters, grandchildren, and adoptive countries. Written by one of this country’s best and most internationally recognized short story authors – the story "The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kallman Once Lived" won the 2011 O. Henry Prize for short fiction – Siege 13 is an intelligent, emotional, and absorbing cycle of stories about war, family, loyalty, love and redemption.
Ghost Geographies
A wry, propulsive, visceral collection of stories about the afterlives of utopia -- imagined and real -- from the author of the Writers' Trust Prize-winning Siege 13. Fleeing communist Budapest by air balloon, a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the Party's General Secretary, a Belgian bureaucrat "defects" to communist Hungary, chasing the dream of a better world. Meanwhile, a provocateur filmmaker drinks and blasts his way to a final, celluloid confrontation with fascism, while an enfant terrible philosopher works on his prophetic, posthumously panned masterpiece, Dyschrony. These are among the decadent and absurd characters who hover around the promise and failure of utopia across the pages of Ghost Geographies. Crossing the porous borders of fact and fiction, the reinforced ones of the communist East and the capitalist-democratic West, and the literary ones between Bolaño, Sebald, and Kundera, these new stories confirm that, in the words of the Washington Post, Tamas Dobozy's "approaches to telling stories, and his commitment not only to provoke thought but to entertain, constitute a virtuoso performance."
Siege 13
A series of 13 linked short stories about the Red Army's siege of Budapest from Dec. 1944-Feb. 1945, set both in the historical moment and with survivors in the present day.
When X Equals Marylou
A collection of stories, a kind of beguiling miscellany, with each story opening another door.
Stasio
This novel - presented in three distinct novellas - is best categorized as belonging to the "metaphysical detective story" genre (originating with Poe, and later exemplified by Paul Auster, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon and others). The novellas trace the ever deepening involvement of the protagonist Anthony de Stasio in a series of political nightmares, from a cursed firearm in Steyr Mannlicher that leads him through the world of a single mother's hardscrabble poverty; to the tormented life of a daughter imprisoned in a world utterly defined by misogyny in Photo Array; to the workings of a mysterious postwar utopian cult originating in Zurich that traffics street kids in an attempt to engineer a mass and universal refusal of the vote, in The Unaffiliated. But each novella is also connected to the one that precedes it in the linear progression of Stasio from indifferent policeman to a kind of guide through the charnel house of contemporary politics, and features a supporting cast of characters whose personal involvement with the novellas and with Stasio informs his developmental arc, to employ a phrase from those tedious how-to manuals on creative writing.
Last Notes and Other Stories
"Shot through with wit, a strong sense of the bonds of history, and a love of the absurd, Last Notes gives a virtuoso performance that will dazzle the imagination and touch the heart as it explores the ways in which we come together and are pulled apart. With stories such as "Tales of Hungarian Resistance" and "Four Uncles," Tamas Dobozy reveals the cultural no-man's-land that many children of immigrants are trapped within. Others, such as the title piece, the story of a dying composer and his legacy, probe the connections between artistic vision and madness. "The Man Who Came Out of the Corner of My Eye" is an Ambrose Bierce-like story with an unsettling end, "Into the Ring" delivers a satirical punch to the institution of marriage, as a couple learns to settle their conflicts in the boxing ring."--BOOK JACKET.
Cabbagetown Diary
Robert Fulford called it “a remarkable glimpse of the underbelly of Toronto,” but the reviews that greeted the publication of Cabbagetown Diary in 1970 were decidedly mixed. The novel’s rowdy concoction of grit and violence and rooming-house sleaze had a strongly polarizing effect on its readers. Many admired the frankness of Butler’s depiction of a sordid environment, and others deplored the obscenity of the language and the dangerous and careless ways in which his characters behave, bent as they are on downward self-transcendence. But Cabbagetown Diary was undeniably a promising debut by a young writer whose brash tone and pungent subject matter were unique in Canadian writing at t...
Writing Class
Since the mid 1980s, the Kootenay School of Writing, a writer-run center in Vancouver, has been the site of some of the most innovative poetry coming out of North America. Leaving behind conventional ideas about syntax and lyricism, the KSW poets have produced a body of work that is jarring, troubling, provocative, funny, and beautiful. In their introduction to this sampling from the work of fourteen writers, Andrew Klobucar and Michael Barnholden describe the historical and aesthetic environment which produced the Kootenay School of Writing, and in doing so demystify a poetry that many regard as "difficult." WRITING CLASS is a fascinating introduction to the most vital poetry being written today.
Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections
The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colonus and the latter part of King Lear we are presented with an old man who was once a King and, following his expulsion from his kingdom on account of a crime or of an error, is turned into a ‘no-thing’. This happens in the time of the division of the kingdom, which is also the time of the genesis of intraspecific conflict and, consequently, of the end of the dynasty. This collection of essays offers a range of perspectives on the many common concerns of these two plays, from the relation between fathers and sons/daughters to madness and wisdom, from sinning and suffering to ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ in human and divine time. It also offers an overarching critical frame that interrogates questions of ‘source’ and ‘reception’, probing into the possible exchangeability of perspectives in a game of mirrors that challenges ideas of origin.
