Gábor Tamás Indiana - József Attila - József Attila versei Gábor Thomas Indiana válogatásában / Móra Ferenc Ifjúsági Könyvkiadó 2017 / Paperback

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A collection is always about who they are collecting from and who they are collecting from. He who selects from a painter's picture those who fit in an exhibition space and are placed on the wall not only testifies about the painter, but also - in the selection of the pictures and through it in the pictures - about himself. At the age of twenty-eight or twenty-nine, Attila József made a selected volume of his earlier poetry, and for that he very carefully selected everything he had written before. Indiana’s selection argues with this: it highlights quite others, especially the 16-20-year-old Attila József, a high school and then college-young intellectual poet who is looking for himself, his own voice, his own say, who wants to create his own poetry. He who is not ready yet, but is in turmoil, in whom the temper is already strong, but he is still looking for form. Would it be easier to identify with it? Would he have been a better slammer at a young age and become a better poet as an adult? The power of irregularity? Beauties in mutation? For many, this Attila József will be an unexpected, novelty, discovery for many. If we have such a direct relationship with him anyway that many people only talk about him as Attila. For Indiana, too, you are either Attila József, that is, the poet, or JA, that is, the subject of his writing, or Attila, that is, his close friend, acquaintance, say, his brother. Let's get so close to the poems too! - György D. Fenyő If you are someone, then the Slemmers are able to show young people how interesting poems written a hundred and fifty years ago are still today. Tamás Gábor's selection of Indiana poems and the comments on the poems convince him that József Attila is cool and not worth sweeping aside. Read Attila József too!

Author: Gábor Tamás Indiana - József Attila
Publisher: Móra Ferenc Ifjúsági Könyvkiadó
Year of publication: 2017