A Martian's Guide to Budapest

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"Onefine day a Martian turned up in Budapest, took a room in the Bristol Hotel, brushed the stardust from his suit and telephoned to inquire if I might show him round the town."
Who is this Martian, this unknown traveller who appeared out of the blue in Budapest in 1935? The writer of this legendary book? Or could he be the modern reader of our present day? Most of the places mentioned can still be visited, and this little guide accompanied with old photographs can help evoke the people and the history of this beautiful city. A Martian's Guide to Budapest is a "whimsical and gently ironical love letter to the city".
Antal Szerb (1901-1945) is best known in the West as a novelist and short story writer; however he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the field of European literature. Debarred from a university post, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Onefine day a Martian turned up in Budapest, took a room in the Bristol Hotel, brushed the stardust from his suit and telephoned to inquire if I might show him round the town."
Who is this Martian, this unknown traveller who appeared out of the blue in Budapest in 1935? The writer of this legendary book? Or could he be the modern reader of our present day? Most of the places mentioned can still be visited, and this little guide accompanied with old photographs can help evoke the people and the history of this beautiful city. A Martian's Guide to Budapest is a "whimsical and gently ironical love letter to the city".
Antal Szerb (1901-1945) is best known in the West as a novelist and short story writer; however he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the field of European literature. Debarred from a university post, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increasing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light, the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance, wry humour and understated irony.
Antal Szerb s books in English
Journey by Moonlight (a novel) Oliver VII (a novel) The Pendragon Legend (a novel) The Queen's Necklace (a novel) Love in a Bottle (short stories)
The Chain Bridge is infernally long Stroll with a woman on your arm, across to Buda, and then stroll back again—possibly with the same woman. You will find it conducive to romance simply because it is so long.
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