Milan Kraus - Gyalogösvények a Magasba

The compiler and translator of our volume, László Tóth, published an anthology of twenty-six contemporary Slovak poets in 1984 under the title Gyújtópont, and in 1995 under the title A two-headed cat. The aim of his current collection, Footpaths to the Heights, is the same as the previous one: by presenting eight outstanding, distinctive personalities, to cover in a kind of personal reading five generations of contemporary Slovak poetry, which in some way forms the backbone and main thread(s) of today's Slovak lyric, and whose poetic-aesthetic validity and authenticity have been proven by time since then. If the purpose of literary translation is to expand and supplement the literature, culture, and culture of a nation with the results and colors of another nation's literature, Footpaths to the High by poets Milan Kraus (19242006), Ján Ondruš (19322000), Štefan Strážay (1940), Mila Haugová ( 1942), Ivan Štrpka (1944), Karol Chmel (1953), Daniel Hevier (1955) and Michal Habaj (1974) present poetic and poetic language possibilities and poetic horizons that essentially have no equivalent in contemporary Hungarian poetry. Thus, in addition to the reading experience, the poems in our volume can offer the Hungarian poetry lover the joy of discovery.

LÁSZLÓ TÓTH (1949) poet, writer, literary translator, editor. He was born in Budapest, lived in Czechoslovakia between 1954-1985, Budapest between 1985-2005, and then moved back to Slovakia. József Attila Award winner. The number of his books, including his edits and translations, is close to a hundred. He mainly translates Slovak and Czech poetry (but also other genres), occasionally Polish and Russian poets. Compiler and translator of several contemporary Slovak and Czech poetry collections (Gyújtópont, 1984; The Two-Headed Cat, 1995; Achilles and the Tortoise with István Vörös, 1996); conducted numerous interviews with Slovak poets and writers.