The Complete Guide to Being Hungarian

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What is it to be Hungarian? What does it feel like? Most Hungarians are convinced that the rest of the world just doesn't get them. They are right. True, much of humanity thinks highly of Hungarians—for reasons ranging from their heroism in the 1956 revolution to their genius as mathemaricians, physicists, and financiers. But Hungarians do often seem to be living proof of the old joke that Magyars are in fact Martians: they may be situated at the very heart of Europe, but they are equipped with a confounding language, extraterrestrial (albeit endearing) accents, and an unearthly way of thinking.
What most Hungarians leam from life about the Magyar mind is now available, for the first time, in this user-friendly guide to what being Hungarian is all about.
The Complete Guide to Being Hungarian brings together twelve authors well-versed in the quintessential ingredients of being Hungarian—from the stereotypical Magyar man to the stereotypical Magyar woman, foods to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Llfarmattan
What is it to be Hungarian? What does it feel like? Most Hungarians are convinced that the rest of the world just doesn't get them. They are right. True, much of humanity thinks highly of Hungarians—for reasons ranging from their heroism in the 1956 revolution to their genius as mathemaricians, physicists, and financiers. But Hungarians do often seem to be living proof of the old joke that Magyars are in fact Martians: they may be situated at the very heart of Europe, but they are equipped with a confounding language, extraterrestrial (albeit endearing) accents, and an unearthly way of thinking.
What most Hungarians leam from life about the Magyar mind is now available, for the first time, in this user-friendly guide to what being Hungarian is all about.
The Complete Guide to Being Hungarian brings together twelve authors well-versed in the quintessential ingredients of being Hungarian—from the stereotypical Magyar man to the stereotypical Magyar woman, foods to folk customs, livestock to literature, film to philosophy, politics to porcelain, and scientists to sports.
In fifty short, highly readable, often witty, sometimes politically incorrect, but always candid articles, the authors demonstrate that being credibly Hungarian—hke being French, Polish, or Japanese—-is largely a matter of carrying around in your head a potpourri of conceptions and preconceptions acquired over the years from your elders, society, school, the streets, and the mass media.
Compacting this wealth of knowledge into an irresistible little book, The Complete Guide to Being Hungarian is an essential reference that will teach you how to be Hungarian, even if you already are.
FROM THE PREFACE
"They pass the time mainly by looking forward into the past," observes Jimmy Porter about his father-in-law and his father-in-law's generation in John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger. However, this observation characterises not only an age group but also a people. Namely, the Hungarians.
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