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At the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness, high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel in the national crown. From the turn of the century to World War II, however, the Hungarian capital was described, variously, as: Judapest, the sinful city, not in Hungary, and the Chicago of the Balkans. This is the first English-language study of competing metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature that spans both the liberal late Habsburg and post-liberal, Christian-national eras, at the same time as the Jewish Question became increasingly inseparable from representations of the city. Works by writers from a wide variety of backgrounds are discussed, from Jewish satirists to icons of the radical Right, representatives of conservative national schools, and modernist, avant-garde and peasantist authors.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Chicago of the Balkans
• Subtitle: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939
• Author: Gwen Jones
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 168
• EAN: 9781907975578
• ISBN: 1907975578
• ID: 05028439
• Publisher: Maney Publishing
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 249 × 173 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. March 2013

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