Alexander Lenard: Stories of Rome / Translated by Mark Baczoni / Lenard Sandor: Romai Tortenetek (Hungarian Original Title) / Corvina Books Ltd. 2013 / Paperback 

ISBN-13: 9789631361681 / 978-9631361681

ISBN-10: 9631361683 

Printed in Hungary

Pages 242

Alexander Lenard (Budapest, Hungary 1910 - Dona Emma, Brazil 1972) wrote some good books in German and Hungarian - about a village in Brazil populated by German settlers (Valley of the Latin Bear, One Day in the Invisible House). Beside writing of his experiences in Rome under Fascism and during the Second World War, he also produced a Roman cookbook. It was he who translated Winnie the Pooh into Latin, and won a quiz series on Bach in São Paulo. He taught Latin and ancient Greek in Charleston and produced studies in linguistics in various languages as well as translating German writers into Hungarian. His essays on Hungary - in German - were addressed to his elder son, and he dictated his childhood experiences - in Italian - for the younger. He studied medicine in Vienna and worked as a chemist in his little Brazilian village. He played the piano and tended his garden. He spent his whole life fleeing from the Nazis and the Fascists, finding shelter in dead languages and chamber music. He was convinced that the Brazilian jungle was the only place that would be spared by nuclear war. In 1968, he was accused of being none other than Dr Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" in Auschwitz. This slander was picked up by the world's press and though noted writers and scientists protested against it, a year later he was again accused and could no longer find employment in the United States and Brazil. The anxiety was too much for him and he died.

György Spiro

Best known as the translator of Winnie the Pooh into Latin, Alexander Lenard was born in 1910 in Budapest. He studied medicine in Vienna, but after the Anschluss, he left for Rome, hoping from there to sail for some quiet corner of the world far from the madness that he_unlike many others_could see coming and wished to avoid. However, he ended up staying in Rome throughout the war, and only left for Brazil in 1952, where he became the doctor and pharmacist in the tiny village of Dona Emma. He wrote a charming memoir of his time there under the English title of The Valley of the Latin Bear. Lenard died in 1972. The following excerpt is from his memoirs of the years 1938-46 in Mussolini's Rome, the dying days of Italian fascism in a city rich with the overlaid traditions of three thousand years. It is a record of everyday life under fascism without the judgment of propaganda, recalling to the modern reader that even the toughest times have their routine, that one can get accustomed to everything, and that at the end of the day a man's inner world may sometimes triumph over the brutality of the external world. (Mark Baczoni) /// Alexander Lenard: Stories of Rome / Translated by Mark Baczoni / Lenard Sandor: Romai Tortenetek (Hungarian Original Title) /// This is a great Christian product sourced from BIML- Bible In My Language, the leader in foreign language Bibles and outreach materials from Baltimore, Maryland in the USA. BIML stocks Bibles in more than 600 languages.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corvina Books (January 1, 2013)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 241 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9631361683

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9631361681

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds