I first met Tamás (or Thomas, as he is known in English) Kabdebó some time in 2006. At the suggestion of the outstanding radio reporter, Éva Filippinyi – who also departed this life, some two years ago now –, I went to see him, when I was still a writer
In our corner of the world that is Central Europe, there is no shortage of ghost towns and villages. History here has been rather munificent in meting out decay and destruction, not only to individuals and their communities but sometimes to entire settlements. From Pripyat next to Chernobyl to the
In our corner of the world that is Central Europe, there is no shortage of ghost towns and villages. History here has been rather munificent in meting out decay and destruction, not only to individuals and their communities but sometimes to entire settlements. From Pripyat next to Chernobyl to the
The principal recurring motif of our book, and one of its protagonists, should be the Danube. It should feature encyclopaedic knowledge not only about the history of the Danube region, but also its ethnography, its flora and fauna, its geography. The Danubian landscape should be presented as a cultural entity
Orsolya Zsuzsanna Kovács: Polish Jigsaw. Fourteen Interviews Friendship. Seemingly a simple matter. After all, it does not require more than two people. Hence friendship is “as simple as ABC”, one would think. And one would be utterly wrong. Each of us can probably recall the name of our best pals
On the Danube-Concept of Thomas Kabdebo’s Novel Trilogy Danubius Danubia As I sat on the bottom step of the wharf,A melon-rind flowed by with the current;Wrapped in my fate I hardly heard the chatterOf the surface, while the deep was silent.As if my own heart had opened its gate:The Danube was
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