2012
The Little Horn of Prophecy
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By the author who foretold 911 and the Twin Towers meltdown!
In all that is banal and bathetic lurks the heroic as in the story of Attila Nagy whose mad forays into time sound the horn of prophecy. The visionary path its author Peter Hargitai cuts into time intersects with Nostradamus’ famous Epistle and with contemporary history: “The great empire of the Antichrist will begin where Attila and Xerxes descended.”
--Nostradamus (from the Epistle to Henry II)
“This deliciously ironic, picaresque tale borders on the bizarre, but Hargitai is a language master capable of effortless shifts from reality to myth … This genre-bending novel is a pleasure to read. Highly recommended for all fiction collections.”
--Library Journal
Hargitai maintains a high level of tension; with arrogant abandon he plays out his tricks and his intricate cat-and-mouse game on the reader with huge success. So deft are his embroidery of metaphors and redressing of myths that we give credence to the most outrageous bluffs, mythical occurrences, pseudomagic, drug-induced psychedelic visions, inexplicable apparitions, and a bevy of layers-thick concealments … Few can convey the madness of the New World with such absurd dexterity, and such a keen sense of irony and the grotesque. This mischievous, iconoclastic sorcerer manages to mesmerize everybody.”
--World Literature Today
About the Author
Peter Hargitai has been teaching for four decades. As a poet, and visionary author and translator, he has garnered numerous literary awards including the Landon Translation Award from the American Academy of Poets, the Fust Milan Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal, the Medal of Freedom, and the 2009 Martin Luther King Poetry Prize. Chief among his visionary works is his 1994 novel ATTILA: A BARBARIAN'S BEDTIME STORY (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 93-84984) in which he predicted the exact way the World Trade Center's Twin Towers would be destroyed. Contact: www.freewebs.com/hargitai