Become A Message - Lajos Walder magen david If This Is a Man

If This Is a Man

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Become A Message - Lajos Walder magen david If This Is a ManPoetry. Translated from the Hungarian by Agnes Walder. Exuberant and witty, poignant and severe, trenchant yet lighthearted, Lajos Walder's poems cut to the quick and stay with you. Reading them is like reliving an era long gone and, at the same time, learning to see our own world with new eyes. For Lajos Walder's message speaks to us as directly today as it did to his contemporaries almost a century ago: that apart from thieves and murderers there