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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (originale 1999; edizione 2004)di Paul Lendvai (Autor), Jefferson Decker (Übersetzer)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat di Paul Lendvai (1999)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Not a light read. Too demanding, if you just want to learn the general outline and know more about the Hungarians. To Paul Lendvai, the besetting sin of Hungarian culture is its "cult of history" and "the nationalistic sense of mission" that has resulted. This might be tolerable except for another unfortunate facet of the Hungarian national character (the main topic of this work), and that is the sense of paranoia over being an isolated people with possibly little to offer besides an esoteric language and a host of colorful legends. Lendvai traces these tendencies by examining exemplary personalities across the span of of Hungarian history, and he's at his best when he has a colorful character to peg his insights to. The downside of this is that Lendvai's prose tends to flag when examining the more cut and dry factors of national developement. While this is certainly the best account I've read of the general thrust of Hungarian history, particularly for capturing the spirit of the medieval and early modern periods, I do wish that Lendvai could have offered a better explanation (as opposed to description) of the origins of the destructive sense of entitlement that afflicted the Hungarian aristocracy, as so many of the evils of Hungarian history can be traced to this trait. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"In this absorbing and comprehensive history, Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hungarians, despite a string of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, have survived as a nation for more than one thousand years. Now with a new preface and a new chapter that brings the narrative up to the present, the book describes the evolution of Hungarian politics, culture, economics, and identity since the Magyars first arrived in the Carpathian Basin in 896. Through colorful anecdotes of heroes and traitors, victors and victims, revolutionaries and tyrants, Lendvai chronicles the way progressivism and economic modernization have competed with intolerance and narrow-minded nationalism. An unforgettable blend of skilled storytelling and scholarship, The Hungarians is an authoritative account of this enigmatic and important nation"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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