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Hungarian literature: where to start? | ||
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| gaggilla Tetraglot Newbie Switzerland Joined 5018 days ago 18 posts - 28 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Romanian Studies: Icelandic, Persian, Hungarian, Danish | Message 1 of 4 06 August 2013 at 11:27am | IP Logged |
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Hello everyone,
so I've been studying Hungarian for some time now and I think I might just be at the point where reading literature, while still hard, might get enjoyable. So, basically I'm just interested in fiction of any kind; I'm not afraid of taking long to read a page - I am, however, afraid of taking long to read 400 pages, so I'm not looking for epic novels. I think up to about 200 pages will be manageable. Of course, collections of short stories would be wonderful, too. Do you have any ideas? Which Hungarian writers have an easier style to understand for non-native speakers compared to others? Who uses a more narrow vocabulary, whose sentences aren't all too long? Any recommandations will be welcome. In German, usually the classics are my taste, but in foreign languages, it's more about getting used to reading the language for me combined with an interesting story, especially in the beginning. Thank you :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 06 August 2013 at 7:07pm | IP Logged |
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Professor Arguelles has the following titles on the list of Great books:
Balassi, Bálint baron of Kékk and Gyarmat (1554-1594) : Poetry Pázmány, Péter (1570-1637) : Guide to Truth Zrínyi, Miklós (1620–1664) : The Peril of Sziget Arany, János (1817-1882) : Ballads Jókai, Mór (1825-1904) : The Man with the Golden Touch, The Heartless Man's Sons, Eyes like the Sea, The novel of the next century Madách, Imre (1823-1864) : The Tragedy of Man Petőfi, Sándor (1823-1849) : Selected Poetry Maybe forum member Chung has something else to suggest. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 3 of 4 06 August 2013 at 9:14pm | IP Logged |
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I'd recommend Sándor Márai. I read "Embers" by him in German and it was great. The Hungarian title is "A gyertyák csonkig égnek".
Unfortunately, I don't know whether it will be an easy read in Hungarian or not. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| gaggilla Tetraglot Newbie Switzerland Joined 5018 days ago 18 posts - 28 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Romanian Studies: Icelandic, Persian, Hungarian, Danish | Message 4 of 4 10 August 2013 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you both! The Márai book sounds interesting, I'm going check it out! I don't know about the classics yet, I think for my first few books I'm going to stick with relatively contemporary writers, so as to learn some more modern vocabulary first (I even tend to get strange looks when using some of the words from the 60s FSI course, so I'm not sure what they'll say if I start talking like Petőfi :) )
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