The Essential Guide to Being Hungarian

by BORI, ISTVAN

• ISBN13: 9780982578100
• ISBN10: 0982578105
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: New Europe Books

Summary

In a fine translation by David Robert Evans, this book presents the first-ever popular history of how Laszlo Biro and Andor Goy invented the modern ballpoint pen. Gyorgy Moldova, Hungary's foremost master of documentary prose, has turned a true tale of invention into a captivating narrative that reads simultaneously like a novel and a work of history. Taking us from Hitler's Europe in 1938, to Argentina, where Biro eventually settled, and to Communist-era Hungary, where Goy lived out his life, he gives us an informative, inspiring, and cinematic work.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
soul	p. 1
fate	p. 4
landscape	p. 8
horse	p. 11
livestock	p. 14
disease	p. 18
world heritage	p. 20
capital city	p. 24
symbol	p. 29
holiday	p. 33
folk customs	p. 37
folk dancing	p. 41
folk costumes	p. 44
folk music	p. 48
language	p. 51
literature	p. 55
contemporary writer	p. 59
poets	p. 62
painters	p. 65
paintings	p. 69
classical music	p. 73
light music	p. 78
operetta	p. 82
composers	p. 85
music-makers	p. 90
theater	p. 93
film directors	p. 96
movie stars	p. 100
photographers	p. 103
inventor	p. 107
philosopher	p. 110
scientists	p. 113
travelers & explorers	p. 117
world of legends	p. 120
kings	p. 124
queen consorts	p. 128
saints	p. 131
19th-century statesmen	p. 134
20th-century rulers	p. 138
porcelain	p. 143
appetizers & desserts	p. 147
food	p. 151
spices	p. 154
drinks	p. 157
entertainment	p. 162
sport	p. 166
woman	p. 169
man	p. 172
businessman	p. 175
athlete	p. 179
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