Truong Dang Dung - Képzelt emlékek - Háy János fordításában

Man is man everywhere: both in the fragility of his existence, in his infinite misery and in his sublime happiness. We live in collective loneliness. (TRUONG DANG DUNG)

What makes these time-poems surround us so familiarly, this modern-day nightmare voiced in János Háy's interpretation? Between the lines, time, disorder, uncertainty, the ceaseless hopelessness of loss of value are raging.

TRUONG DANG DUNG was born in 1955 in Nghe An Province, Central Vietnam.
He came to Hungary in 1972, studied literature, and after returning home he worked at the Vietnam Literature Research Institute. From 1981, he returned to Budapest for three years, working on his candidate thesis at ELTE. He wrote his first poems during his university studies in Hungary, the title poem of the current volume was published with the support of Ferenc Juhász. During this period, together with Dezső Tandori, he translated the volume of poems Kieu története published by Europa Könyvkiadó. As a translator, he contributed to increasing the popularity of Hungarian culture in Vietnam. Member of the International Society of Hungarian Studies (Society of Hungarian Studies).