Istvan Eorsi was a Hungarian writer and poet who died of leukemia in 2005. He was known for his sarcastic, often abrasive style and passionately held political views. While these have changed in the course of Hungary's rec... more »ent history, there were certain commitments that Eorsi had made in his youth and upheld throughout his career: the first to a revisionist Marxism represented by his teacher, the philosopher and critic Gyorgy (George) Lukacs, and the second to the memory of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, for which he suffered a jail sentence after its suppression. Eorsi translated several Shakespeare plays, but was more interested in contemporary poetry, translating the American beats, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso - when the latter visited Hungary in the late 1960s, Eorsi was his interpreter.« less