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Hungarian Rhapsodies

By Richard Teleky

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Hungarian Rhapsodies

By Richard Teleky

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Like the renowned American writer Edmund Wilson, who began to learn Hungarian at the age of 65, Richard Teleky started his study of that difficult language as an adult. Unlike Wilson, he is a third-generation Hungarian American with a strong desire to understand how his ethnic background has affected the course of his life. "Exploring my ethnicity," he writes, "became a way of exploring the arbitrary nature of my own life. It was not so much a search for roots as for a way of understanding rootlessness - how I stacked up against another way of being." He writes with clarity, perception, and humor about a subject of importance to many Americans - reconciling their contemporary identity with a heritage from another country.

From an examination of photographer Andre Kertesz to a visit to a Hungarian American church in Cleveland, from a consideration of stereotypical treatment of Hungarians in North American fiction and film to a description of the process of translating Hungarian poetry into English, Teleky's interests are wide-ranging. he concludes with an account of his first visit to Hungary at the end of Soviet rule.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1997-07-01
Publication Date:
1997-05-01
Publisher:
University of Washington Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0295976063
ISBN13:
9780295976068
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
22
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
313 g
Height:
144 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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