Tag: Magda Szabo
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Aging in (another) place: Magda Szabo’s novel Iza’s Ballad
Carol LevineNew York, New York, United States In Hungary in the early 1960s, Izabella (Iza) Szöcs is a physician, and a very good one, according to her patients and peers. Her specialty is rheumatology, but she makes “notes not just about the pain in the hands or feet or aching joint, but about the person…
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The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s novel The Door
Carol Levine New York, New York, United States Mixed media painting “Nickels and Dimes I” by Natalie Avondet. Used by permission of the artist. An old woman desperately needs medical attention. Yet she fiercely refuses every offer of help from friends, neighbors, and the local doctor. No one will get past her door, she vows.…