{"product_id":"we-the-twenty-five-letters-of-the-alphabet-english-translations-from-the-selected-poems-of-the-late-lajos-walder","title":"We, The Twenty-Five Letters of the Alphabet: English Translations from the Selected Poems of the late Lajos Walder","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWE, THE TWENTY-FIVE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eEnglish Translations from the Selected Poems of the late\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eLAJOS WALDER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hungarian poet Lajos Walder (1913-1945) who chose the pseudonym Vándor, or wanderer, first came to notice in 1932 when he introduced himself to the editor of Anonymous, a Budapest literary magazine, with the following words:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"My name is Lajos Vándor. I am a poet, a law student and a trainee worker at the knitting mills. To the proletarians l am a rotten bourgeois; to the bourgeoisie I am a stinking proletarian; to the petit-bourgeoisie I am an evil anarchist and to the anarchists l am a cowardly petit-bourgeois. And everybody is right, whatever they say about me. But I wrote a few masterpieces - these, the poets and les belles ames would call prose, and the prose writers and modern aesthetes would call poems. Take them and eat them, read them, and publish them; but first give me a cigarette because I left my cash register at home and I don't have four cents in my pocket to buy a single fag.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalder's poems are an accurate expression of their times. Political tension and bizarre humour are juxtaposed in a manner concordant with the irreverent Da-da major movement that after 1916 swept through the art and literary circles of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems, translated by his daughter Agnes Walder are here published in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMacmillan Publishing 2004, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bernie Silberston","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44943737192517,"sku":"906","price":24.75,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/9997\/3445\/files\/we-the-twenty-five-letters-of-the-alphabet-english-translations-from-the-selected-poems-of-the-late-lajos-walder-twentyfiveletters-6612051.jpg?v=1777833983","url":"https:\/\/shop.sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au\/products\/we-the-twenty-five-letters-of-the-alphabet-english-translations-from-the-selected-poems-of-the-late-lajos-walder","provider":"Sydney Jewish Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}