BUKSZ Fall, 1992
BUKSZ Fall, 1992

Summary/Abstract: They say that a real writer is totally indifferent to the reader's reaction to his text. Not so the columnist of the Budapest Review of Books, who, from quarter to quarter, tries to relate what is contained in the Hungarian version of this-some say overly exacting- periodical. He often wonders about that person somewhere in Europe or in the United States who, for some unexplained reason, will sit down and read the BOOKS: whence his interest in Hungarian culture, how does he picture Hungary, how does he envisage Budapest? Has he ever been here? Does he know the city where most of the BUKSZ critiques are born? What does he know about the country beyond what he might read in his favorite local paper about some major trends or political events: Does he have any notion as to the nature of the transformation taking place, as to what is changing into what? Questions like this are indeed, part and parcel of writing reviews, and, of course, book reviews.

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