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Camp Notebook
by Miklós Radnóti
Bilingual English / Hungarian edition
Translated by Francis R. Jones
Introduced by George Szirtes
Second edition
Part of our Visible Poets series edited by Jean Boase-Beier
Camp Notebook is a masterpiece in its own right, a crucial work of European verse. It is one of the greatest pieces of literature to emerge from the Holocaust, and probably the finest volume of poetry born from the horror of the Second World War.
... in a tiny concealed notebook, [the poet] wrote his
last and finest poems. In 1944, Radnóti was shot while being force-marched towards Germany and his body, exhumed from a ditch after the war, was identified from the notebook in his pocket. This notebook, reproduced here in facsimile ... adds tremendous poignancy to Francis R. Jones's new translation.
The clarity, directness and formal skill of Francis Jones's translations ensure that Camp Notebook joins and extends the best of the Radnóti canon in English and is part of the process of sounding the full depth of the original poems.
Pbk: 9781910345344
Published August 2019
