As I shared my interest in Czeslaw Milosz<\/A> known among my friends, one of my housemates told me about the great Hungarian poet J\u00e1nos Pilinszky. I'll list some references that I will come back to when I'm ready to learn more about Pilinszky:
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  J\u00c1NOS PILINSZKY<\/A>: <\/P><\/LI>
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  As a writer of metaphysical poetry, essay and drama, Pilinszky has deeply influenced postwar Hungarian poetry. His early experiences in the second World War prison camps where he spent several months had only strengthened his personal alienation and existential anguish, and resulted in uniquely intense poems. <\/UL>
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    Partisan Review<\/A>: <\/P><\/LI>
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    In their attempt to confront the horror and name the unnameable, poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Tadeusz R\u00f3zewicz, and J\u00e1nos Pilinszky committed themselves to a dry, laconic anti-poetry. They displayed a powerful ambivalence toward the very work they were creating, mistrusting it for outlasting the Catastrophe and, in the words of R\u00f3zewicz, \"for having survived when those who created the poetry were dead.\" <\/UL>
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      poetrymagazines.org.uk - J\u00e1nos Pilinszky<\/A>: <\/P><\/LI>
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      HUNGARIANS CONSIDER J\u00e1nos Pilinszky to be one of their best living poets. S\u00e1ndor We\u00f6res, a towering poet, and nobody\u2019s lipserver, calls him \u2018our greatest\u2019. <\/UL><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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