By Miklós Radnóti
This publication comprises the whole poems in Hungarian and in English translation of Hungary's nice sleek poet, Miklos Radnoti, murdered on the age of 35 through the Holocaust. His earliest poems, the six books released in the course of his lifetime, and the poems released posthumously after global warfare II are incorporated. there's a foreword through Gyozo Ferencz, considered one of Hungary's ideal specialists on Radnoti's poems, and accompanying essays by way of the writer on dominant topics and routine photos, in addition to the relevance of Radnoti's paintings to Holocaust literature.
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