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Chico Buarque: Budapest (angol)

Perhaps ​Brazil's most influential and beloved composer and musician, Chico Buarque is also a highly praised poet, playwright, and novelist. In „Budapest,” Buarque introduces the story of a ghostwriter who immerses himself in the Hungarian language. Josi Costa lives in Rio de Janeiro. Fated to remain in the shadows of his illustrious clients, Costa breaks free of this fate and spontaneously buys a ticket to Budapest. In the city by the Danube, he falls in love with a strangely enchanting woman named Kriska, who offers to teach him the Magyar language in the most intimate of ways. First, however, he must observe the old proverb „There is no life outside Hungary” and abandon his thoughts of samba, sunbathers on Ipanema, Sugarloaf Mountain, and his wife in Rio, to turn himself over to a strange, hallucinogenic world of pumpkin rolls, late-night discos in old Buda, endless bottles of Trojak wine, and, of course, Kriska, the willful seductress and disciplinarian who is as hard to fathom… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2003

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Bloomsbury, London, 2005
184 oldal · ISBN: 9780747573708 · Fordította: Alison Entrekin

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BZsofi P>!
Chico Buarque: Budapest (angol)

Huhhhh… Jól kezdődött, de… egyre zavarosabbá és érthetetlenebbé vált számomra. A cím is megtévesztő egy kissé, ugyanis Budapestről nem túl sok szó esik. Ami viszont nagyon érdekes volt: magyar szavakat viszontlátni egy angol nyelvű könyvben. Méghozzá többnyire jó helyesírással.

Mustamakkara>!
Chico Buarque: Budapest (angol)

Kicsit zavaros, de mégiscsak Budapestről (is) szól. Bolhapiaci zsákmány.


Népszerű idézetek

BZsofi P>!

I turned up the volume, but it was Hungarian, rumoured to be the only tongue in the world that the devil respects.

It should be against the law (3. oldal)

3 hozzászólás
BZsofi P>!

And what is there to do in Budapest? It was hard to answer: Look at the Danube? Drink liqueurs? Listen to poets?

In the case of the children. (40. oldal)

BZsofi P>!

It should be against the law to mock someone who tries his luck in a foreign language.

(első mondat)

bagolyfiók>!

I have always had the vague feeling that I was also the map of a person.

55. oldal, I had never seen (Grove Press)


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