Review by Magdalena Garbacik-Balakowicz

2023. augusztus 24. § 0 hozzászólás

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Brie­dis, La­i­mon­as. Vil­ni­us: City of Strang­ers. Vil­ni­us: Bal­tos lan­kos, 2021.

Vil­ni­us: City of Strang­ers was first pub­lis­hed in 2009, with trans­la­tions into Lit­hu­a­ni­an, Ger­man, Rus­si­an, and Por­tu­gu­ese pub­lis­hed to date. The Eng­lish edi­ti­on was re-published in 2021. The year 2023, when Vil­ni­us, one of Europe’s most cul­t­u­rally comp­lex ca­pi­tals, ce­le­b­ra­tes the 700th an­ni­ver­sary of the city’s fo­und­ing, is a good oc­cas­ion to re­turn to Briedis’s book. Alt­ho­ugh Vil­ni­us: City of Strang­ers fo­cus­es on his­to­ri­cal do­cu­ments, one sho­uld not think of this book as re­se­arch dis­cus­sing the his­to­ry of Vil­ni­us in a tra­di­ti­o­nal way. The book is a cont­ri­bu­ti­on to the field of cul­t­u­ral geo­gra­phy. Brie­dis cho­se to tell the sto­ry of Vil­ni­us from the pers­pec­tive of strang­ers, tho­se who came to Vil­ni­us kno­wing litt­le or noth­ing abo­ut it, more out of for­ced cir­cum­stan­ces than of the­ir own cu­ri­o­sity. Vil­ni­us: City of Strang­ers re­se­ar­ches tra­ve­lo­gues on Vil­ni­us writ­ten over the last se­ven cent­uri­es. The­ir aut­hors are scho­lars, po­li­ti­ci­ans, writers, and sol­di­ers, who spent a lon­ger or shor­ter pe­ri­od of time, som­etimes li­te­rally only a few days, in Vil­ni­us. The aut­hors of the­se tra­ve­lo­gues dif­fer in the lan­gu­a­ges they speak, the­ir backg­round, and so­ci­al sta­tus. They also dif­fer in how they ex­pe­ri­en­ced Vil­ni­us. For some, it was a po­sit­ive con­tact, for ot­hers a ne­ga­tive one.
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Juhász Gabriella írása

2020. április 30. § 0 hozzászólás

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Jó­zsef Sisa, ed. Mo­ther­land and Prog­ress: Hun­ga­ri­an Ar­chi­tec­tu­re and De­sign 1800–1900. Ba­sel: Birkhäu­ser, 2017.

Six ye­ars ago a mo­nu­men­tal work was pub­lis­hed by the Re­se­arch Cent­re for the Hu­ma­ni­ti­es of the Hun­ga­ri­an Aca­demy of Sci­en­ces and Osi­ris pub­lish­ing hou­se. It was the first part of a two-volume se­ri­es dis­cus­sing Hun­ga­ri­an art in the 19th cent­ury, with the first vo­lu­me fo­cus­ing on ar­chi­tec­tu­re and app­li­ed arts. The main edi­tors were Lász­ló Beke and Jó­zsef Sisa, whi­le the sci­en­ti­fic ad­vi­sors were Ka­ta­lin Sin­kó and Il­di­kó Nagy.
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