Budapest 1900 : A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture

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ISBN: 9780802132505 | 0802132502
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Copyright: 2/1/1994

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"Lukacs's book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city's history. . . . {His} true sympathy lies . . . not with the famous expatriates, but with the writers and intellectuals who lived and died at home: the poets Endre Ady and Mihaly Babits; the novelists Ferenc Herczeg, Sandor Hunyady, Frigyes Karinthy, Dezso Kosztolanyi, Gyula Krudy, Kalman Mikszath, and Zsigmond Moricz; the political essayist DezsoSzabo; the playwright Erno Szep; the literary historian Antal Szerb; and others. . . . {John Lukacs} sets out to explain Hungarian literature to English-speaking readers. Though I have no idea whether or not he will succeed, few interpreters of Hungarian literature have made a more touching and eloquent attempt." -- The New York Review of Books

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Colors, Words, Sounds	p. 3
The painter Munkacsy's funeral	p. 3
His rise and fall	p. 6
The seasons of Budapest	p. 10
The atmosphere of the city in 1900	p. 19
Three writers of Budapest in 1900	p. 16
Krudy's descriptions of the city	p. 19
Differences between Budapest and Vienna	p. 27
1900 a turning point in the history of Budapest	p. 28
The City	p. 29
Its physical situation	p. 30
Its districts	p. 32
Its buildings and architecture	p. 48
The crowding of the city	p. 53
Rail, river and road; other communications; public services	p. 57
Material progress and population increase	p. 62
The reputation of Budapest abroad	p. 65
The People	p. 67
The historical developments of Buda and Pest	p. 68
Their unification	p. 70
The "Millennium"	p. 71
State and conditions of the population in 1900	p. 73
Bourgeois influences	p. 75
Culinary habits and changes	p. 77
Criminality and prostitution	p. 81
Athletics and sports	p. 83
The structure of classes; the old nobility; the gentry	p. 85
the financial aristocracy and the patrician class	p. 95
Changes in the composition of the wealthy classes	p. 95
The Jewish population	p. 95
The working classes	p. 97
The rigidities of class consciousness	p. 99
Social mobility	p. 100
The Magyarization of Budapest	p. 102
Elements of bourgeois civilization	p. 103
Relations of the sexes	p. 104
Financial lightheadedness and probity	p. 106
Politics and Powers	p. 108
The Parliament	p. 108
Rhetorical habits and customs	p. 109
Nationalist optimism	p. 110
The worsening of parliamentary behavior	p. 111
Historical and constitutional development of the Hungarian state	p. 112
The Compromise of 1867	p. 116
The political crisis of 1890	p. 117
The unraveling of the political equilibrium	p. 120
The fallings of Hungarian prestige abroad	p. 123
The problem of the nationalities	p. 125
The decline of Liberalism	p. 129
The Social Democrats	p. 130
Anti-Semitism	p. 131
The new Catholic party and movement	p. 132
The 1905 elections and the end of the Liberal monopoly in Budapest	p. 135
The Generation of 1900	p. 137
The concept of generations	p. 137
What the Generation of 1900 had in common	p. 138
Its members	p. 139
The Budapest schools	p. 142
The cultural atmosphere	p. 146
Book publishing	p. 147
The coffeehouses and their culture	p. 148
The Budapest press	p. 152
Literary journals	p. 152
Hungarian literature in 1900	p. 154
Writers of the generation of 1900	p. 156
Three well-known writers abroad	p. 157
The great writers unknown abroad	p. 159
The Ady explosion	p. 164
The populist pioneers	p. 168
The boulevardier talents	p. 170
The new painters of the generation	p. 171
The modern nationalist architects	p. 174
Bartok and Kodaly	p. 175
Theatrical and musical culture and the entertainment industry	p. 176
Retrospective criticism of a generation by Szekfu and others	p. 179
Its subsequent revision	p. 180
Seeds of Troubles	p. 182
Decline of the general equilibrium in 1900	p. 182
Attacks on Liberalism	p. 183
The changing condition of the gentry	p. 183
A new nationalism	p. 185
Attacks on Budapest	p. 187
A new variety of anti-Semitism	p. 188
Left and Right: the symptomatic development of the Society of Social Science	p. 197
A semblance of prosperity and peace before 1914	p. 204
Catholicism in Budapest around 1900	p. 204
The summer of 1914	p. 205
German ideological and cultural influence	p. 206
Since Then	p. 209
Budapest during the First World War	p. 209
The end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the Budapest October Revolution	p. 210
The short-lived Radical and Communist governments	p. 211
The nationalist reaction	p. 212
The amputation of Hungary	p. 212
The recovery of the twenties	p. 213
The shadow of the Third Reich	p. 214
Budapest during the Second World War	p. 215
Its German and Russian occupation; the siege of Budapest	p. 216
Its destruction	p. 218
Under Communism	p. 221
The 1956 Rising	p. 222
The rebuilding of the city	p. 223
The tourist invasion; Budapest revisited	p. 224
References	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 231
Acknowledgments	p. 237
Index	p. 239
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