Word: hungarian
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...Soviet bloc countries except Rumania. In what was read by observers as an outgrowth of that conference, Literaturnaya Gazeta, a leading Soviet weekly, last week reprinted a Polish article rebuking Rumania for taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow, the Budapest paper warned that Chou's junket "has an anti-Soviet edge." For the first time, the paper also...
FAKING IT, or THE WRONG HUNGARIAN by Gerald Green. 411 pages. Trident...
...extremely competent Gerald Green is anything but cautious in Faking It, or The Wrong Hungarian, a romp paprikash that spoofs the big league literary life with endless verve and infectious silliness. Its hero-narrator, Ben Bloodworth, author of sentimental Jewish novels not unlike the high-grade schmalz Green himself rendered in The Last Angry Man, crashes an international literary conference in Paris. Bloodworth, of course, is snubbed by the heavyweights, who are presented by Green as obvious caricatures of real writers, most notably the Mailer-like wild man named Arno Flackman and a cloudy Sontag named Lila Metrick...
There is more glee than fury in the caricatures, and Green grinds his rubber axes in the midst of a Marx Brothers plot that parodies the standard spy novel. Unintentionally, Bloodworth gets mixed up with a pair of Hungarian scientists who perpetrate an elaborate mind-control hoax so that one of them can defect to join his old mistress. Bloodworth has a good time of it (readers will too), particularly during a brief moment of status when the literati look up to him as a CIA Scarlet Pimpernel...
Ivan Boldizsar, L.H.D., novelist, playwright and executive president of the Hungarian P.E.N. society...