A
BALKAN/CENTRAL/EASTERN
EUROPE
READING
LIST
(updated
9/10/14)—compiled
by
Harold
Babcock
Alternatives
for
Romania.
Render
(2).
Anthology
of
Korunk:
Journal
of
Culture
Theory
and
Criticism— Transylvania.
Cluj,
Romania,
199?
or
200?
Andric,
Ivo.
Bosnian
Chronicle.
New
York:
Arcade
Publishing,
Inc.,
1993.
_____.
The
Bridge
on
the
Drina.
Chicago:
The
University
of
Chicago
Press,
1977.
_____.
The
Slave
Girl
and
Other
Stories
About
Women.
Central
European
Classics.
New
York:
Central
European
University
Press,
2009.
Ash,
Timothy
Garton.
History
of
the
Present:
Essays,
Sketches,
and
Dispatches
from
Europe
in
the
1990s.
New
York:
Vintage
Books,
2001.
Banffy,
Miklos.
The
Phoenix
Land:
The
Memoirs
of
Count
Miklos
Bannfy.
Chester
Springs,
PA:
Arcadia
Books,
2003.
[Originally
published
in
1932.]
_____.
They
Were
Counted.
The
Writing
on
the
Wall
[TheTransylvanian
Trilogy:
Vol.
I].
London:
Arcadia
Books,
2000.
(Originally
published
in
1937.)
_____.
They
Were
Found
Wanting.
The
Writing
on
the
Wall
[The
Transylvanian
Trilogy:
Vol.
II].
London:
Arcadia
Books:
2000.
(Originally
published
in
1937.)
_____.
They
Were
Divided.
The
Writing
on
the
Wall
[The
Transylvanian
Trilogy:
Vol.
III].
London:
Arcadia
Books:
2001.
(Originally
published
in
1940.)
Bart,
Istvan.
Hungary
and
the
Hungarians:
The
Keywords.
Budapest:
Corvina
Books,
Ltd.,
2002.
Boia,
Lucian.
Romania:
Borderland
of
Europe.
London:
Reaktion
Books
Ltd.,
2001.
Boym,
Svetlana.
The
Future
of
Nostalgia.
New
York:
Basic
Books,
2001.
Brubaker,
Rogers,
et.
al.
Nationalist
Politics
and
Everyday
Ethnicity
in
a
Transylvanian
Town.
Princeton,
New
Jersey:
Princeton
UniversityPress,
2006.
Burford,
Tim
and
Richardson,
Dan.
Romania:
The
Rough
Guide.
New
York:
Penguin
Books
USA
Inc.,
1998.
Budapest:
Time
Out
Guide.
New
York:
Penguin
Putnam
Inc.,
1999.
Carver,
Robert.
The
Accursed
Mountains:
Journeys
in
Albania.
London:
Flamingo:
An
Imprint
of
Harper
Collins
Publishers,
1999.
UUPCC
PO
Box
88
Bedford,
MA
01730‐0088
781‐275‐1710
Email:
[email protected]
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Codresdu,
Andrei.
The
Hole
in
the
Flag:
A
Romanian
Exile’s
Story
of
Return
and
Revolution.
New
York:
William
Morrow
and
Company,
Inc.,
1991.
Crowe,
David
M.
A
History
of
the
Gypsies
of
Eastern
Europe
and
Russia.
New
York:
St.
Martin’s
Griffin,
1996.
Davidhaze,
Peter,
et.
al.,
eds.
The
Lost
Rider:
A
bilingual
anthology.
[The
Corvina
Book
of
Hungarian
Verse.]
Budapest:
Corvina
Books
Limited,
1997.
Drakulic,
Slavenka.
Cafe
Europa.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
1999.
_____.
How
We
Survived
Communism
and
Even
Laughed.
New
York:
Harper
Perennial
Books,
1993.
_____.
S.:
A
Novel
of
the
Balkans.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
2001.
_____.
The
Balkan
Express.
New
York:
Harper
Perennial
Books,
1994.
_____.
They
Would
Never
Hurt
a
Fly:
War
Criminals
on
Trial
in
the
Hague.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
2005.
Dumitriu,
Petru.
Incognito.
New
York:
The
Macmillan
Company,
1964.
Esterhazy,
Peter,
et.al.
A
Hungarian
Quartet:
Four
Contemporary
Short
Novels.
Budapest:
Corvina
Books
Ltd.,
1991.
Fermor,
Patrick
Leigh.
Between
the
Woods
and
the
Water.
New
York:
New
York
Review
Books,
2005.
_____.
A
Time
of
Gifts.
New
York:
New
York
Review
Books,
2005.
_____.
The
Broken
Road:
From
the
Iron
Gates
to
Mount
Athos.
New
York:
New
York
Review
Books,
2013.
Fichtner,
Paula
Sutter.
The
Habsburg
Monarchy,
1490‐1848:
Attributes
of
Empire.
European
History
in
Perspective.
New
York:
Palgrave
Macmillan,
2003.
Frigyesi,
Judit.
Bela
Bartok
and
Turn‐of‐the‐Century
Budapest.
Los
Angeles:
University
of
California
Press,
1998.
Fonseca,
Isabel.
Bury
Me
Standing:
The
Gypsies
and
Their
Journey.
New
York:
Vintage
Departures,
1995.
Gallagher,
Tom.
Theft
of
a
Nation:
Romania
since
Communism.
London:
Hurst
and
Company,
2005.
Gardonyi,
Geza.
Eclipse
of
the
Crescent
Moon.
Trans.
by
George
F.
Cushing.
Budapest:
Corvina
Books,
2005.
UUPCC
PO
Box
88
Bedford,
MA
01730‐0088
781‐275‐1710
Email:
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Glenny,
Misha.
The
Balkans:
Nationalism,
War,
and
the
Great
Powers,
1804‐1999.
New
York:
Viking
Penguin,
2000.
Hanak,
Peter.
The
Garden
and
the
Workshop:
Essays
on
the
Cultural
History
of
Vienna
and
Budapest.
Princeton,
New
Jersey:
Princeton
University
Press,
1998.
Hoffman,
Eva.
Exit
into
History:
A
Journey
Through
the
New
Eastern
Europe.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
1994.
_____.
Lost
in
Translation:
A
Life
in
a
New
Language.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
1990.
I
Remain:
Voices
of
the
Hungarian
poets
from
Transylvania.
Miercurea
Ciuc,
Romania:
Pro
Print,
1997.
Jozsef,
Attila.
Winter
Night:
Selected
Poems
of
Attila
Jozsef.
Budapest:
Corvina
Books
Ltd.,
1997.
Judt,
Tony.
Postwar:
A
History
of
Europe
Since
1945.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
2005.
_____.
“Romania:
Bottom
of
the
Heap.”
New
York
Review
of
Books.
Nov.
1,
2001,
pp.
41‐45.
Kaplan,
Robert
D.
Balkan
Ghosts:
A
Journey
Through
History.
New
York:
Vintage
Departures:
1996.
_____.
Eastward
to
Tartary:
Travels
in
the
Balkans,
the
Middle
East,
and
the
Caucasus.
New
York:
Vintage
Departures,
2001.
Kast,
Sheilah
and
Rosapepe,
Jim.
Dracula
is
Dead.
Baltimore:
Bancroft
Press,
2009.
Kertesz,
Imre.
Fateless.
Evanston,
Illinois:
Northwestern
University
Press,
1992.
Kosztolanyi,
Dezso.
Skylark.
Central
European
Classics.
Budapest:
Central
European
University
Press,
1993.
Kovaly,
Heda
Margoulius.
Under
a
Cruel
Star:
A
Life
in
Prague
1941‐1968.
New
York:
Holmes
and
Meier
Publishers,
Inc.,
1997.
Krudy,
Gyula.
The
Adventures
of
Sinbad.
Central
European
Classics.
Budapest:
Central
European
University
Press,
1998.
Kurti,
Laszlo.
The
Remote
Borderland:
Transylvania
in
the
Hungarian
Imagination.
Albany:
State
University
of
New
York
Press,
2001.
Lazar,
Istvan.
Transylvania:
A
Brief
History.
Budapest:
Corvina
Books
Ltd.,
1997.
Lenvai,
Paul.
The
Hungarians:
A
Thousand
Years
of
Victory
in
Defeat.
Princeton,
NJ:
Princeton
University
Press,
2003.
UUPCC
PO
Box
88
Bedford,
MA
01730‐0088
781‐275‐1710
Email:
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Lieber,
Joseph
S.,
and
Shea,
Christina.
Budapest
and
the
Best
of
Hungary.
Frommer’s
Guide.
New
York:
IDG
Books
Worldwide,
Inc.,
2000.
Lukacs,
John.
Budapest
1900:
A
Historical
Portrait
of
a
City
and
Its
Culture.
New
York:
Grove
Press,
1988.
Madach,
Imre.
The
Tragedy
of
Man.
Budapest:
Corvina
Books,
Ltd.,
2000.
Magris,
Claudio.
Danube.
London:
The
Harvill
Press,
2001.
Mak,
Geert.
In
Europe:
Travels
Through
the
Twentieth
Century.
New
York:
Vintage
Books,
2008.
Marai,
Sandor.
Embers.
New
York:
Vintage
International,
2002.
_____.
Esther’s
Inheritance.
New
York:
Vintage
Books,
2008.
_____.
The
Rebels.
New
York:
Alfred
A.
Knopf,
2007.
Marton,
Kati.
The
Great
Escape:
Nine
Jews
Who
Fled
Hitler
and
Changed
the
World.
New
York:
Simon
and
Schuster,
2006.
Mazower,
Mark.
The
Balkans:
A
Short
History.
New
York:
Modern
Library,
2000.
Morgan,
Christine.
Alabaster
Village:
Our
Years
in
Transylvania.
Boston:
Skinner
House
Books,
1997.
Moricz,
Zsigmond.
Be
Faithful
Unto
Death.
Central
European
Classics.
Budapest:
Central
European
University
Press,
1995.
Muller,
Herta.
The
Land
of
Green
Plums.
Hydra
Books.
Evanston,
Illinois:
Northwestern
University
Press,
1998.
Murphy,
Dervla.
Transylvania
and
Beyond.
London:
Arrow
Books,
1992.
Penkov,
Miroslav.
East
of
the
West:
A
Country
in
Stories.
New
York:
Farrar,
Straus,
and
Giroux,
2011.
Pilinszky,
Janos.
The
Desert
of
Love:
Selected
Poems.
London:
Anvil
Press
Poetry
Ltd.,
1989.
Polcz,
Alaine.
A
Wartime
Memoir:
Hungary
1944‐1945.
Budapest:
Corvina
Books
Ltd.,
1998.
Richards,
Brian.
Budapest
and
Hungary.
Globetrotter
Travel
Guide.
London:
New
Holland
Publishers,
2006.
Rebreanu,
Liviu.
Forest
of
the
Hanged.
New
York:
Duffield
and
Company,
1930.
UUPCC
PO
Box
88
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MA
01730‐0088
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Rubinstein,
Julian.
Ballad
of
the
Whiskey
Robber.
New
York:
Back
Bay
Books/Little,
Brown
and
Company,
2004.
Sebestyen,
Victor.
Twelve
Days:
The
Story
of
the
1956
Hungarian
Revolution.
New
York:
Pantheon
Books,
2006.
Sitwell,
Sacheverell.
Roumanian
Journey.
New
York:
Oxford
University
Press,
1992.
[Originally
published
in
1938.]
Snyder,
Timothy.
The
Red
Prince:
The
Secret
Lives
of
a
Habsburg
Archduke.
New
York:
Basic
Books,
2008.
Starkie,
Walter.
Raggle‐Taggle:
Adventures
with
a
Fiddle
in
Hungary
and
Roumania.
London:
The
British
Publishers
Guild,
1941.
Stavrianos,
L.
S.
The
Balkans
since
1453.
New
York:
New
York
University
Press,
2000.
Szymborska,
Wislawa.
Miracle
Fair:
Selected
Poems
of
Wislawa
Szymborska.
New
York:
W.
W.
Norton
&
Company,
2001.
Tamasi,
Aron.
Abel
Alone.
Hungarian
Library.
Budapest:
Corvina
Press,
1966.
The
Palgrave
Concise
Historical
Atlas
of
The
Balkans.
New
York:
Palgrave,
2001.
Todorova,
Maria.
Imagining
the
Balkans.
New
York:
Oxford
University
Press,
1997.
Verdery,
Katherine.
Transylvanian
Villagers:
Three
Centuries
of
Political,
Economic,
and
Ethnic
Change.
Berkeley,
CA.:
University
of
California
Press,
1983.
West,
Rebecca.
Black
Lamb
and
Grey
Falcon:
A
Journey
Through
Yugoslavia.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
1994.
Wheatcroft,
Andrew.
The
Ottomans:
Dissolving
Images.
New
York:
Penguin
Books,
1995.
Wildman,
Kim
and
Williams,
Nicola.
Romania
and
Moldova.
Oakland,CA.:
Lonely
Planet
Publications,
2001.
Yoors,
Jan.
The
Gypsies.
Prospect
Heights,
Illinois:
Waveland
Press,
Inc.,
1987.
Zoltani,
Csaba
K.,
ed.
Transylvania
Today:
Diversity
at
Risk.
Budapest:
Osiris
Publishing,
2013.
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Box
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