Stephen Vizinczey

You cannot put it down: witty, moving and it's all about sex' Margaret Drabble 'A masterpiece ... dazzling ... like all great novels, it shows the truth about life' Le Monde 'At the basis of pleasure, of eroticism, Vizinczey places consciousness. His novel consists of scenes which you can see ... Stupefying: it leaves you breathless with excitement. Here, everything is living ardour, inexhaustible fervour' Giorgio Montefoschi, Corriere della Sera

The Amorous Recollections of András Vajda

In Praise of Older Women

في مديح النساء الأكبر سنا

En Brazos de La Mujer Madura (Ave Fenix)

Carina von Enzenberg

die amourösen Erinnerungen des András Vajda ; Roman

Wie ich lernte, die Frauen zu lieben

Elogio delle donne mature

Published directly by author - http://stephenvizinczey.com/ This ebook edition is a revised and expanded version of the printed book, including many essays which previously appeared only in recent foreign language editions. "I don't usually review older books in this space, but I decided to make an exception for this classic book of reviews and essays ... he is a remarkable writer of enormous personality and skill as this book of essays, and his own classic novel, In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of András Vajda, attests. Writers will thrill to read his enabling and energizing “Ten Commandments,” and reviewers would gain much from his own loosely-styled criticism so distant and so distinct from what we often read by professional reviewers. These are reviews for the ages." – thebowedbookshelf.blogspot.com "Mr. Vizinczey can make us care about his favorite writers like Kleist and Stendhal because the flavor of his own writing makes it apparent, without tedious egotism, that he himself has experienced the rapture of love, and reflected on its immutable meaning. In a word, he unerringly knows how to find the weight of experience, and states it in unflinching, aphoristic English.” – Mark Le Fanu, The Times (London) “Vizinczey comes on like a pistol-packing stranger here to root out corruption and remind us of our ideals. He carries the role off with inspired gusto... His own essays convey the sheer fun of getting worked up about art... Vizinczey's boldness and pugnacity are bracing and can be very funny...” – Ray Sawhill, Newsweek “The real function of the critic should be to draw the reader to the work of art, and that is precisely what Vizinczey, one of the greatest critics I have ever encountered, does.” – Edwin Howard, Memphis Business Journal

(Revised and Extended edition)

Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments

"Brilliantly inventive, written with great flair and shows a deliciously comic and ironic sense of American realities."—Alfred Kazin "The virtues of [Vizinczey's] style are those he finds in Hungarian poetry: the moody ferocity of a locked-up beast, and also a classic clarity and complete lack of self-indulgence."—Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor "Shows where the true values lie—not in wealth or the rule of law but in that as yet inviolate sector where a man and woman make love. . . . I was entertained but also deeply moved: here is a novel set bang in the middle of our decadent, polluted, corrupt world that, in some curious way, breathes a kind of desperate hope."—Anthony Burgess, Punch (London) "Bravo!"—Graham Greene

An Innocent Millionaire

Gathers book reviews and essays about Balzac, Stendhal, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Mann, Kleist, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Mailer, feminism, the mafia, and the Holocaust

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