Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
"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
- Author
- John Lukacs
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780802132505
- Settings
- Budapest
- Genres
- history, hungary, travel, cultural, historical, cities
- Release date
- 1994
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