Krúdy's Chronicles de John Batki

Krúdy's Chronicles: Turn-of-the-Century Hungary in Gyula Krudy's Journalism

John Batki

Written during the 1910s '20s and '30s, these articles offer a wistful and nostalgic image of the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with portraits of the Habsburgs, culminating in first-hand reports in 1916, from Vienna on the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph I, and from Budapest on the coronation of Charles IV, the last king of Hungary. Krúdy's reports follow the bloodless democratic revolution of 1918, the Károlyi government and the short-lived Soviet Republic, and present cameos of the leading political figures of the day such as Ferenc Kossuth, Mihály Károlyi and Béla Kun.

In his lively, casual pieces Krúdy displays his intimate knowledge of Hungarian society with a special emphasis on literature and publishing.

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Cuprins

John Lukacs: The Chronicler and the Historian, Tiszaeszlár, Fifty Years Later, Frigyes Podmaniczky's Beard, The Bridegroom of Andrássy Avenue, The St. Stephen's Day Travele,r Catholic Crusading Knights of Yore: Their Glory and Their Decline, Somosy, the Man Who Taught Budapest a Lesson in Nightlife, The Court Kept by Miklós Szemere, The Authentic Account of a Legendary Card Battle, One Hundred Years of Horse Racing in Budapest, The Rose of Pest, László Mednyánszky, the Vagabond Baron, The Novelist at the Casino, My Adventures with the Poet on the Crooked Sidewalks, The Lord Mayor of Budapest, The Streets of St. Theresa, Kossuth's Son, Francis Joseph's Wine, Francis Joseph I, the Foremost Gentleman in Europe, Ida Ferenczy, the Queen's Lady-in-Waiting, Baltazzi, the Agent of the Prince, Letter from Pest, 10 May 1914, Winter Campaign, A Budapest Gentleman who had Stepped Forth from an Old Woodcut, Women's Hands, A Hungarian Village After Sundown, The Coronation, Charles IV, Our Ill-Starred King, If the Elder Tisza Were to Return..., The Golden Age of Budapest, Budapest Stark Naked, A Revolutionary Conversation with a Russian Lady, István Tisza's Journey Toward Death, The New Conquest, How the Revolution Broke Out, Land Distribution at Kápolna, Károlyi's Strange Career, The Bolshie, Hungarian Gentry, Forefathers and Descendants, We, the Old-Time Hungarians Glossary, compiled by László Kelecsény, Bibliography, Index

Notă biografică

Gyula Krúdy is one of the towering figures of 20th century Hungarian literature. In addition to a stunning array of fiction- over eighty novels and stories, his non-fiction output is considerable, about eighteen hundred items of journalistic writing which constitute a colourful and closely observed 'chronicle' of Hungary in the first decades of the twentieth century. Selected, edited and translated by John Bátki. Introductory essay by John Lukacs.

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Written during the 1910s '20s and '30s, these articles offer a nostalgic image of the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with portraits of the Habsburgs, culminating in first-hand reports in 1916, from Vienna on the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph I, and from Budapest on the coronation of Charles IV, the last king of Hungary.