Last time we observed the profitability of a good old brand name, but what happens when a brand name and an immensely popular literary genre meet on the pages of an author whose strong individual characters try to steal the show? Is a true detective fiction novel only successful thanks to blood, or is there…
“This summer school can change lives”, as Margaret Mills Harper, former director of the International Yeats Summer School has put it. And she is absolutely right. This summer, I had the pleasure to spend two weeks in Yeats Country, Sligo, among the most determined Yeatsians, and I am looking forward to sharing this amazing experience…
Recognized as one of the best all-male choirs of the US and having a 100-year-long history, the Notre Dame Glee Club is soon to arrive at Budapest on their one-month European tour to sing for us (free!) at 7pm, after the 6 o’clock mass on Tuesday, 26th May in Matthias Church, heart of the Buda Castle. Following the concerts…
In this post I briefly present the first topic of my research in Moldova: newspaper strips, more precisely how elements of the comics’ medium (panels, speech bubbles, inscriptions) are used by editors to boost the quality of articles or even the quality of newspapers. Reading the basic work on comics The Penguin Book of Comics:…
It is not true. Coalhouse is not Kohlhaas. And never will be, as Doctorow is not Heinrich von Kleist. Still, the most complex character of Ragtime, by his name, deeds and fate resembles Kleist’s hero, Michael Kohlhaas. This is why I am going to explore the equivocal relation between them. Coalhouse is a name no…
It took three months before The Sunday Times and The Guardian shed light on the fact that the quietly published The Cuckoo’s Calling, debut piece by a mysterious author named Robert Galbraith, is – in fact – the first detective fiction novel of the universally acclaimed novelist, J K Rowling. As The Evening Standard reported…
“No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open” (Austerlitz, 25) Architecture and objects are the basis of remembrance in Sebald’s novel Austerlitz and this is what made me interested especially in the process, how we remember and especially what circumstances and objects…
It’s awfully nice to do the unthinkable to yourself. Being a very adaptive personality I ventured to spend the spring semester in the Republic of Moldova. In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a bandit, who offered shelter to travelers and, once they accepted, took them to his bed, in which they had to fit. If the…
These days we hear a lot about Hungarian education. We often hear how the education system is inefficient at many levels, how low our pupils and students perform compared to other countries and how the situation is getting worse. There are concepts promising solution for this problem, but these concepts should be scrutinized by politicians.…
As tastes and trends change, video games continue to evolve, just like other forms of media. Recent years have seen the emergence of a new kind of gameplay: interactive narratives that emphasize practical and moral player choices. While decision making has always been a core feature of tabletop – and to some extent digital –…