A Mirror to the Cage
Three Contemporary Hungarian Plays

Edited and Translated by Clara Gyorgyey
Introduction by Ervin C. Brody

This volume presents the works of three distinguished contemporary Hungarian playwrights which together mirror and elucidate the calamitous history of East Central Europe from World War II to the 1970s.

1994, 272 pages
$33.00 cloth (s), 1-55728-267-6

Borderline Culture
The Politics of Identity in Four Twentieth-Century Slavic Novels

Tomislav Z. Longinovic

In this literary criticism of the twentieth-century Slavic novel, Longinovic argues that many central European novelists have found their greatest themes in a "borderline" writing that explores the notion of a unified cultural identity—remarkable in a region whose people are familiar only with divisiveness and animosity.

1993, 216 pages
$28.00 cloth (s), 1-55728-262-5