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LOOKING ACROSS the vast river from Gyorgy Faludy's balcony in old Pest, a distraught young woman scowls into the setting sun beyond the dramatic Buda hills. To the left, a reflection of the eclectic House of Parliament shimmers in the Danube. People gawk at her. Some of them point their fingers.

Faludy is probably the best and certainly the best loved contemporary Hungarian poet, some people call him the greatest living poet in Europe. He has just published a collection called Turbulent Century, an instant literary as well as commercial success. He is a great survivor now aged 93 years, who returned to Hungary around 1990 after decades of self-imposed exile in Britain, the United States and Canada to receive a tumultuous welcome and lots of big literary prizes.

He also received from the adoring nation a magnificent flat on the Danube with supposedly secure tenancy rights, where he lived until now with a male lover; but he recently took a wife, the poet Fanny Kovacs who not long ago celebrated her 28th birthday. She is loving, intelligent and an amazingly capable business manager. The lady on the balcony.

Faludy's book--Viharos Evszazad (in Hungarian), Forever Press, Budapest 2002, 83 pages, 1,980 forints ([pounds sterling]5.42/$8.67)--is the first definitive poetic review of the twentieth century. It will be hard to surpass. It includes a description by Age of physical love with Beauty, probably the only such poem in Western literature. (See Love Poem, the only piece in the following selection which has been taken from this book.) The couple would like a baby, preferably two.