Like the renowned American writer Edmund Wilson, who began to learn Hungarian at the age of 65, Richard Teleky started his study of that difficult language as an adult. Unlike Wilson, he is a third-generation Hungarian American with a strong desire to understand how his ethnic background has affected the course of his life. "Exploring my ethnicity," he writes, "became a way of exploring the arbitrary nature of my own life. It was not so much a search for roots as for a way of understanding rootlessness - how I stacked up ...
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Like the renowned American writer Edmund Wilson, who began to learn Hungarian at the age of 65, Richard Teleky started his study of that difficult language as an adult. Unlike Wilson, he is a third-generation Hungarian American with a strong desire to understand how his ethnic background has affected the course of his life. "Exploring my ethnicity," he writes, "became a way of exploring the arbitrary nature of my own life. It was not so much a search for roots as for a way of understanding rootlessness - how I stacked up against another way of being." He writes with clarity, perception, and humor about a subject of importance to many Americans - reconciling their contemporary identity with a heritage from another country. From an examination of photographer Andre Kertesz to a visit to a Hungarian American church in Cleveland, from a consideration of stereotypical treatment of Hungarians in North American fiction and film to a description of the process of translating Hungarian poetry into English, Teleky's interests are wide-ranging. he concludes with an account of his first visit to Hungary at the end of Soviet rule.
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Good Minus UNCORRECTED PROOF. Book Underlining & notes. Staining on side of book. From _Library Journal_: "Teleky (administrator, creative writing program, York Univ., Toronto) explores his Hungarian heritage in this splendid collection of interdisciplinary essays. Some of the pieces are intensely personal, such as "Adult Language Learning, Edmund Wilson and Me, " while others offer a survey of Hungarian influences on popular culture. Teleky writes knowledgeably about films, religious customs, stereotypes, the challenge of translating the language, Hungarian characters in the fiction of John O'Hara (and other writers), and the photography of Andre Kertesz. In the final essay, he examines his own perceptions of ethnicity and struggles with an acceptance of being Hungarian. Teleky includes a comprehensive and diverse bibliography that will lead the interested reader to other relevant writings about Hungarian culture. "
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