VIKTÓRIA LUGOSI
REVIEWS
AKIT ITT FELEJTETTEK
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This book is also first-rate as a psychological novel, as I instantly found myself in the shoes of the love-hungry girl who is literally consumed by her father's love.
But this book is much more than a family novel.
In the middle, there is a long section titled: I imagine so. Here we jump back in time and get to know a Zionist camp operating in a castle in the village of Deskzk.
The author also deserves nothing but praise for his depiction of camp life. The colorful gallery of other children and teachers, their humanity, presents a perfectly rounded world. Which, moreover, does not close off from the children and adults living in the settlement.
This book is a very good read, an imaginary story that targets the reality of the past and present. I think it would work well in translation.
ANDRÁS TÖRÖK
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"The writer knows at the tip of his finger that it's not the big picture that needs to be known, but the details"
ANDRÁS VISKY
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This is not a novel about forgiveness (as the subtitle says), but about acceptance and inexhaustible love.
MOLY
AJVÉ
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In one sitting, one is reading Agatha Christie and Chandler. And Viktória Lugosi. Yes, definitely Viktória Lugosi. From start to finish. Who is this woman? Where did she come from? Did she just pop out of Zeus’s head? Fully armed? Quite impressive. And she bears the kiss of the muse. On her forehead. The kiss of the muse or of the eternal?
MIKLÓS JANCSÓ
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It has been quite some time since readers last had the chance to acquaint themselves with a character sketched with such insight and love, and in such refined pastel colors. The character of the grandmother in Oy vey, who seems almost an archetype of the Yiddish mame, can be placed—with no comparison of the artistic depictions—alongside Péter Esterházy’s imposing portrait of the figure of the father in his family tableau, Harmonia Caelestis, and the characters of the mother and father in the novels of Miklós Vámos
MAGYAR HÍRLAP
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The life of a family in Budapest in the 1960s from the perspective of a little girl, but not just any little girl. She is sensitive, unfailingly sincere, and also full of understanding and love. The characters are vivid, loveable and unbearable, as if they were the very members of her own family… Precise, bold, amusing, and shaking. A wonderful read
ZSUZSA
RAKOVSZKY
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The life of a family in Budapest in the 1960s from the perspective of a little girl, but not just any little girl. She is sensitive, unfailingly sincere, and also full of understanding and love. The characters are vivid, loveable and unbearable, as if they were the very members of her own family… Precise, bold, amusing, and shaking. A wonderful read
ZSUZSA
RAKOVSZKY
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The life of a family in Budapest in the 1960s from the perspective of a little girl, but not just any little girl. She is sensitive, unfailingly sincere, and also full of understanding and love. The characters are vivid, loveable and unbearable, as if they were the very members of her own family… Precise, bold, amusing, and shaking. A wonderful read
ZSUZSA
RAKOVSZKY
VÁNDORHOMÁR
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Migratory Lobster offers engaging portraits of the winners and losers of the past several decades. I particularly enjoyed the wealth of precise details in the sketches and the way in which the objects and moods of the late Kádár era, the fall of socialism, and the new, wild capitalism emerge in the text again and again so vividly, with an almost dazzling vitality
GYÖRGY DRAGOMÁN,
AUTHOR OF
THE WHITE KING
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From time to time, you pick up a book and start to read, and then you notice, though you went to bed early, that the sun is almost rising and you haven’t slept a wink. You devour every page, because you want to know what will become of the masterfully crafted characters. And by the time dawn has come, you know that Viktória Lugosi has won yet another devoted fan
ÉVA PÉTERFY-NOVÁK, AUTHOR OF EGYASSZONY
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Superbly told stories and skillfully sketched portraits rich with detail
REVIZOR
Lugosi can write really well, in a throat-wrenching, earth-shattering way, with great human depths. He still reminds me of Magda Szabó, he could write more, because although reading these stories is not a fun or laugh, sometimes you still have to.
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MOLY
The character and characterization are a masterpiece.
I admit, it's been a long time since I've been so influenced by a book."
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LIBELLUM
HÜMMÖGŐ
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I am glad that I was among the first readers of your excellent book. I was captivated by your humor, your subtle irony and the inner serenity without which you cannot write a good children's book. I liked the twists and turns of the story, the irresistible storytelling, and the fact that you know that the child does not have to babble or babbling. Of course, adult readers can also find joy in it, just like I do. As for the naming, all of them are a hit, if you are not angry about it, I admit that when I saw Egygár and Kétgár, I also felt a pang of yellow envy. Write to children often. (And to me.)
LÁZÁR ERVIN
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The Hümmögő does not lack imagination, it can tell a story, it does not consider the child mentally disabled, and it creates a carefully drawn world. It follows a lot of good traditions, one of which is the inspiration of the name. Empilla, Szilencium or Dezin Ficiál are not far behind Téglagyári Megálló... Lugosi is a born optimist: he sees the wonderful in reality. The story does not falter either, the play exudes cheerfulness and storytelling spirit. The main characters are forced to make various kinds of messes; the story is made for a cartoon.
MAGYAR NARANCS
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Viktória Lugosi's children's book, Hümmögő, promises unadulterated entertainment... The story, although not secretly didactic in places, never over-explains anything for a single moment, and does not question the children's intellectual abilities, even when it comes to understanding such emphatic emotional issues.
BESZÉLŐ
CV
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Viktória Lugosi was born in Budapest in 1962. Her first novel, Ajvé, was published in 2000 and has since gone through five editions. It shows the world of Hungary during the Kádár era through the eyes of a little girl while telling the story of three generations of a Jewish family with delicate humor and profound insight into human nature.
Her novel Dafke (2009) offers the reader humorous and moving snapshots of the upheavals and devastation caused in the life of a family by infertility.
Hümmögő, Lugosi’s fairytale novel, won the Ibby Prize for Children’s Book of the Year soon after its publication in 2002.
Migratory Lobster was published in 2018. The second edition is already available in bookstores.
CONTACT
Lugosi Viktória
Tel: +36 30 212 0100