Budapest 1900 A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
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"Lukacs's book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city's history. . . . {His} true sympathy lies . . . not with the famous expatriates, but with the writers and intellectuals who lived and died at home: the poets Endre Ady and Mihaly Babits; the novelists Ferenc Herczeg, Sandor Hunyady, Frigyes Karinthy, Dezso Kosztolanyi, Gyula Krudy, Kalman Mikszath, and Zsigmond Moricz; the political essayist DezsoSzabo; the playwright Erno Szep; the literary historian Antal Szerb; and others. . . . {John Lukacs} sets out to explain Hungarian literature to English-speaking readers. Though I have no idea whether or not he will succeed, few interpreters of Hungarian literature have made a more touching and eloquent attempt." -- The New York Review of Books
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802132505 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 17 Mar 1994 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 288 |
Weight: | 424g |
Height: | 264mm |
Width: | 154mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |