vlog: spring in Budapest, reading Hungarian literature

Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. -Joyce Carol Oates but I wasn't there in late May lol Books mentioned: Iza’s Ballad by Magda Szabó The Unmade Bed by Françoise Sagan Embers by Sándor Márai The Rebels by Sándor Márai Esther’s Inheritance by Sándor Márai Behind God’s Back by Zsigmond Móricz Fateless by Imre Kertész A Martian’s Guide to Budapest by Antal Szerb Kornél Esti by Dezsö Kosztolányi The Charmed Life of Kázmér Rezeda by Gyula Krúdy Colours and Years by Margit Kaffka Anna Édes by Deszö Kosztolányi The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese Narratives of Budapest compiled by Panel Irodalmi Egyesület The Chimes by Charles Dickens October Nights by Gérard de Nerval The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Thank you for watching! I'm also over here!   / thepostofficegirl     / bewareofpity