Dőlt Vitorla: Versek

Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1965. First Edition. Large octavo in blue cloth board with gilt stamping; white jacket;; 204 pages; 25 cm A very good (-) copy with sunning and bumping to extremities; jacket is good, with edgewear and sunning, especially chipped to rear near spine; now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

In Hungarian. Gyula Illyés (1902–1983) was a major Hungarian poet, writer, and public intellectual whose work bridged the folk traditions of rural Hungary with modernist literary innovation. His best-known poem, One Sentence on Tyranny (“Egy mondat a zsarnokságról”), written in 1950 but unpublished until after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, is a haunting indictment of authoritarianism and remains one of Hungary’s most powerful political poems.Though often walking a careful line under Communist rule, he remained a moral conscience in Hungarian letters until his death.