Letters to a Fellow Historian from Dalmatia - A Subjective Afterword to a Twentieth-Century History of Hungary
Letters to a Fellow Historian from Dalmatia - A Subjective Afterword to a Twentieth-Century History of Hungary

Summary/Abstract: Iwas unable to reply before now to your letter, in which you comment at length on many of the conclusions reached in my Hungary in the Twentieth Century (Corvina–Osiris, 1999). I have long been planning, however, to respond to the substance of the lines with which you honoured me. I suppose that this year’s summer holiday by the Adriatic is going to offer that opportunity, alongside reading Péter Esterházy’s new novel, Celestial Harmonies, and turning the pages of the diaries of Sándor Márai. Though we had lovely weather yesterday, and have the same today, at Crkvenica—right on the border between the Kvarner and Dalmatia—the sea rarely warms up enough to allow it to be wallowed around in for any length of time. I think that sitting here, on the terrace, between two dips, will be a good opportunity to enter into a ‘discussion’ with you.[...]

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