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With the reading club of the Hungarian House of New York.

 

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LECTURE ON EYE OF THE MONKEY HELD IN NEW YORK

Krisztina Tóth presented her novel "Eye of the Monkey" at a literary event held on March 14 at the Brooklyn Public Library. The evening opened with a keynote address by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog.
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FEMMES D’INFLUENCE EUROPÉENNES

Örömmel és büszkén szeretném megosztani, hogy a Schuman Alapítvány új kiadványában én is szerepelek a meghatározó európai nők között: a 43. oldalon olvasható velem interjú. Gratulálok minden megszólalónak, kíváncsian olvasom a beszélgetéseket. Köszönet Elena Roux-nak, aki az interjút készítette és szerkesztette, és köszönet minden interjúalanynak, valamint Pascale Joannin-nak magáért a kiadványért!
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EYE OF THE MONKEY – REVIEW IN NEW YORK TIMES

"Toth’s choice of form, an ominous narrative web that connects many characters stuck in a country with closed borders, is far from arbitrary. These people become victims, some when they least expect it, of a system they’re complicit in; they seem autonomous but are ultimately contained by the instruments of power. It takes a closed circuit, after all, for electricity — that illuminating but critically dangerous force — to flow."
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Eye of the Monkey was featured on NYTimes.com

„I was also mesmerized by “Eye of the Monkey,” a new novel by the Hungarian poet Krisztina Toth about love and death in an unnamed autocracy. She describes how the more baffling and absurd everything gets, the more people cling to the scraps they can control: “His habits, routes, movements were a handhold; without them, he might lose his sense of orientation completely.” — Jennifer Szalai
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Financial Times review of the U.S. edition of Eye of the Monkey

Eye of the Monkey by Krisztina Tóth – autocratic deception and unchecked desire „There is, as you have probably gleaned, little to be optimistic about in the book’s dystopian cosmos. But there is great enjoyment to be found in Tóth’s artistry; in the precision of her images (“she got dressed as if she were leaving a gynecological appointment”), in the originality of her characterisation (Giselle’s husband is “the kind of fellow who always knew what the temperature would be that day”). Her characters are flawed, deceitful, contradictory, and yet their undeniable humanity pulls us in. Tóth shows us how private pain is so often behind hurtful acts; Larkin’s refrain “Man hands on misery to man” feels like a silent companion to the book."
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Poems in Swedish Translation

I am delighted to share that the newly published issue of the Swedish literary magazine Glänta (1.26) features my poems “Mi legyen,” “Szellős,” and “Hold tűje” in Swedish translation. I am deeply grateful to William Csergö for his translation work.
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