Chicago of the Balkans

<p>This is the first English-language study of competing metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature that spans both the liberal late Habsburg and post-liberal, Christian-national eras. Works by writers from a wide variety of backgrounds are discussed, from Jewish satirists to icons of the radical Right, representatives of conservative national schools, and modernist, avant-garde and peasantist authors.</p> 1: Introduction; 2: Becoming pesti at the Turn of the Century; 3: Fragments (I); 4: Revolutions and Conquest; 5: Fragments (II); 6: Private Misery, Public Conflict; 7: Conclusion