Once Upon Transylvania

Kitap İngilizce Coğrafya× Anı - Gezi - Söyleşi× Tarih× Avrupa× Biyografi - Otobiyografi × 20. yy× 21. yy× Avrupa× Balkan× Edebiyat×

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Joseph Berenyi

Regina Berenyi

Ekle

Emeği Geçenler:

Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2008

Yayın Yeri:

Melbourne Victoria Avustralya

Yayıncı:

Hybrid Publishers

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Sayfa Sayısı:

577

ISBN:

9781876462628

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Operatör:

Doğukan Yavuz

Güncelleyen:

Yağız Fatih Nazlıer

Özet:

Growing up in a country between nations, at a time between wars, in a society both ancient and modern, Joseph Berenyi seeks to be free. Beginning in the cobblestone streets of Brassó the reader is drawn into a world where a wolf-dog can be harnessed to a sled, naked Hussars plunge with horses into summer streams, and the hilarious schemes of boys cause uproar. Then with a pen-stroke the country's border is moved. High in the Carpathians is another world. Here the people call themselves descendants of Attila the Hun and whole villages live self-sustainably. It is in these harsh mountains, where shepherds fend off wolves and bears at night, that Joseph's search takes him ever deeper into the wilderness. Meanwhile the drumbeats of a distant war thud ominously.

Berenyi Joseph (to use the Hungarian naming tradition) is a true lover of freedom. He instictively turns his back on the competing calls of commerce, communism and nationalism-authoritarianism in between-the-wars Europe to revel in the magnificent landscapes and wildlife of his Transylvanian mountains. But personally detached though he is from the increasingly violent politics of the era, he cannot avoid becoming caught up in events. He must survive WWII and the creeping imposition of Stalinism in its aftermath before making his way to the West to continue to pursue, unconstrained, his love of nature and of life.
The strengths of this book are the loving, vivid, and exciting reminiscences of exploring the wild landscape of the Transylvanian mountains and the sharply drawn character portraits of the ordinary and not-so-ordinary people who inhabit the region. And while they are very much secondary matters for Mr Berenyi, the background events of war and politics from the early 1930s to the late 1940s are captured with genuine insight. The small selection of photographs perfectly compliments the text.

Berenyi Joseph (to use the Hungarian naming tradition) is a true lover of freedom. He instictively turns his back on the competing calls of commerce, communism and nationalism-authoritarianism in between-the-wars Europe to revel in the magnificent landscapes and wildlife of his Transylvanian mountains. But personally detached though he is from the increasingly violent politics of the era, he cannot avoid becoming caught up in events. He must survive WWII and the creeping imposition of Stalinism in its aftermath before making his way to the West to continue to pursue, unconstrained, his love of nature and of life.
The strengths of this book are the loving, vivid, and exciting reminiscences of exploring the wild landscape of the Transylvanian mountains and the sharply drawn character portraits of the ordinary and not-so-ordinary people who inhabit the region. And while they are very much secondary matters for Mr Berenyi, the background events of war and politics from the early 1930s to the late 1940s are captured with genuine insight. The small selection of photographs perfectly compliments the text.