Budapest 1900

John Lukacs

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Author
John Lukacs
Publish Date
1994-02-01
Subtitle
A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
288
Publisher Name
Grove Press
ISBN-10
0802132502
ISBN-13
9780802132505
citemno
044205
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9780802132505

Description

"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