Collins, Mark. Stateless. Ladywell, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny: Pillar, 2006. 314. pp.
Abstract
This novel appeared in the Republic of Ireland in October 2006, one might perhaps say for the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary. Its title is Stateless, rhyming with the English translation of the title of Nobel-prize winner Imre Kertész’s novel, Fateless. It is the first novel of a young journalist, Mark Collins, whose mother is a Hungarian who left her home country for Ireland as a child in the aftermath of the defeated revolution. Stateless is based on family experiences as well as on documents to be found in Irish archives about how Ireland hosted 530 refugees from Hungary who escaped there at the end of 1956 and in early 1957. Although the book is marked by the flaws that often charactrise the first novel of a young author, the reading of Stateless should be a must for those who cherish overly romantic notions about Irish-Hungarian historical relations and national similarities without being aware of the full picture.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies follows the principles laid down by Creative Commons, which provides guarantees for the Author’s copyright while also ensuring that intellectual properties are made available for the wider public in a digital form. All papers submitted to the journal apply the following licence conditions (indicated on the journal’s website as well as in individual publications):
“© This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.”
You are free to:
- Share, copy and redistribute the material included in the journal in any medium or format under the following terms:
- Attribution — You must give appropriate credit to the Author, and indicate the original place of publication [FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies, Issue nr., page numbers.].
- NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- NoDerivatives — You are not allowed to remix, transform, or build upon the material.
- The above conditions must always be indicated if the journal material is distributed in any form.
- The above conditions must always be met, unless a written permission signed by the Author and the Editor-in-Chief states otherwise.
