hulit1-10, Exercise 3: A reading plan

Model answer (one possible plan; check that each is available in English and which translation to choose):

1. Petofi, a selection of poems (Chapter 3): the voice of 1848 and the national poet. Choose a translation with the original facing it if you can.
2. Madach, The Tragedy of Man (Chapter 4): a dramatic poem on history, for the sweep of ideas.
3. Radnoti, a selection of poems including the last ones (Chapter 6): the cost of the century. Compare translations.
4. Kertesz, Fatelessness (Chapter 8): a plain-voiced view of the camps.
5. Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance or Satantango (Chapter 9): the Nobel laureate's long sentences and dark comedy.

Justification: the list covers the national poet, a work of ideas, wartime poetry, the Holocaust and contemporary prose, across about two centuries. Alternatives with Szabo's The Door or Marai's Embers would add the novel of character and the novel of exile.