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What Is It Like

Summary/Abstract: What is it like to live in a sleepy village, not in the “center”? The answer given by the writer who lives with his wife, most of the time, in a small village far from Budapest, where they have a small apartment, is quite straightforward. The village is not sleepy: most families have cars, TV, and more than one mobile phone. He can watch news and films also on English andGerman stations, be in a town in ten minutes by car, where he can buy foreign papers, and most periodicals that are available in the library anyway. Hes ubscribes to the London Times on the Internet and reads the Times Literary Supplement on paper. They have friends both in the village and nearby, and heprefers living and working ‘far from the madding crowd’ and the virulent political tensions that also divide literary life in Budapest. Anyway, he was born andbrought up in Buda, not in Pest, which was and still is the center of the city andcity life

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