DALOS, Gyorgy (Alfred)

(1943-)

   Hungarian writer, who suffered the usual persecutions (he was expelled from the Communist Party in 1968 as a "dissident") before writing 1985: A Historical Report(Hongkong 2036) from the Hungarian of * * * (trans Stuart Hood and Estella Schmid1983 UK), a tale which did not appear in his native land, or in its original language, duringthe period of Soviet hegemony. It is an extremely sprightly SATIRE on conditions inhis native land, in the form of a sequel to George ORWELL's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR(1949), recounting the death of Big Brother, aninterval of thaw, and once again a clenching of the iron fist.

   JC