A more or less random list of books and films in which Budapest runs in, under, and through the narrative:

 
 
 

A more or less random list of books in which Budapest runs in, under, and through the narrative:

  1. ✤Ernö Szep, The Smell of Humans

  2. ✤Sandor Marai, Casanova in Balzano

  3. ✤Sándor Márai, The Rebels

  4. ✤Michael Korda, Journey to a Revolution

  5. ✤Gregor von Rezzori, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

  6. ✤Péter Nádas, A Book of Memories

  7. ✤Judith Magyar Isaacson, Seed of Sarah:Memoir of a Survivor

  8. ✤George Lang, Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen

  9. ✤Ladislas Farago, Strictly From Hungary

  10. ✤George Konrad, Stranger in My Own Country

  11. ✤Andre Kertész, ... all his oeuvres

  12. ✤Ferenc Molnar, The Pal Street Boys (Hungarian iconic children's classic)

  13. ✤Andrew Grove, Swimming Across

  14. ✤Gyula Krúdy, ... all his oeuvres

  15. ✤George Szirtes, ... all his oeuvres

  16. ✤George Falüdy, ... all his oeuvres

  17. ✤Péter Eszterházy, ... all his oeuvres

  18. ✤Susan Rubin Suleiman, Budapest Diary

  19. ✤Charles Gati, Failed Illusions


Guidebooks (a critical listing)


  1. ✤András Török, Budapest: A Critical Guide - The best and hardest to find outside Budapest; in Budapest shops it's easy to obtain and well worth the effort

  2. ✤Michael Jacobs, Budapest (a Granta City Guide) - The best in the old Baedecker style of guidebooks that provide an intellectually challenging cultural history of their subject

  3. ✤Bob Dent, Budapest: A Cultural History - top runner up to the Jacobs book

  4. ✤The TimeOut Guide to Budapest - The Best of the What's Where? guidebooks...selective and generally accurate assessments of restaurants, shops, sights, pubs, cafés, and cultural venues

  5. ✤Duncan Smith, Only in Budapest - wonderful in both content and format: a large helping of slightly off-the-beaten-tourbus sights with a photo and about a page of text devoted to each

  6. ✤Bradt Mini-Guide to Budapest (new edition due out soon) - a small, witty, insider's perspective; not bad at all


and, of course, my father's tongue-in-cheek guide to Budapest between the wars, as an Amazon reviewer put it, "a gem of a book that will never be out of date, no matter how many years pass. A form of writing that lifts the spirit and leaves you feeling deeply satisfied":


  1. ✤Ladislas Farago, Strictly From Hungary


Films of and about Budapest the concept, if not the geographic entity

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