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Laszlo F. Foeldenyi is professor and chair in the theory of art at the University of Theatre, Film, and Television, Budapest, and a member of the German Academy. He has written numerous award-winning books and lives in Budapest. Ottilie Mulzet is an award-winning translator and literary critic.
It is precisely Foeldenyi's approachable style, as well as Ottilie Mulzet's impeccable translation, that makes this collection easily accessible to scholars and casual readers alike. -Barbara Halla, Asymptote Foldenyi's brilliant essay on Dostoyevsky reading Hegel is an essential meditation on history, civic responsibility and our ongoing responsibility towards others. -Alberto Manguel, author of A History of Reading It is a hallucinatory moment: Dostoyevsky, first condemned to death, then sent as a soldier to the endless emptiness of Siberia, where he reads Hegel's thoughts about the abstract building of History, a building in which neither Siberia nor Africa can have a place, an unsentimental construction made of glass, with its holy ending the Weltgeist, in which all the personal suffering of mankind has disappeared. Laszlo Foeldenyi has written about this in such a way that you can feel the sacred shudder with him. -Cees Nooteboom
