Alberto Manguel wrote that he had read the fifty-page essay on the recommendation of Cees Nooteboom. Since he does not read Hungarian, he read the essay in a Spanish Translation.
?Földényi suggests (quite plausibly) that Dostoevsky may have read Hegel?s Lessons in the Philosophy of World History in his Siberian prison, and that he deduced from Hegel?s philosophical methods the miseries of our present self-defeating society,? Manguel wrote.
Manguel noted that the essay has not yet been translated into English and he urged any publisher not afraid of short books to consider it.
Földényi, 54, has received numerous awards, including the Attila József Award and the Dezső Kosztolányi Award, presented by the Soros Foundation in 1996, the Jelenkor Publishing House?s Book Award in 2000 and the Fiction Writers? Award in 2006.
Source: Hungarian News Agency
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