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“Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.”

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M. John Harrison
M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison, born on July 26, 1945, is a British author known for his unique perspective and profound insights across various genres, including history, science fiction, and literature. more

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