The Phoenix Land by Miklos Banffy

Author:Miklos Banffy [Miklós Bánffy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908129673
Publisher: Arcadia Books Limited
Published: 2011-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

64. Where Bánffy owned some farmland.

65. The ancestral palace of the Esterházys at Galanta seems to be one of the models for the fictional castle of ‘Jablanka’, which figures extensively in the second and third volumes of The Writing on the Wall. One of Miklós Bánffy’s great-grandmothers was Agnes Esterházy.

66. The 1848 Party was formed by supporters of the 1848 uprising in Hungary that fought against the absolute rule of the Habsburgs and domination by Austria.

67. Meaning ‘Sooty’ in Hungarian.

68. The shooting at Surány was famous and has been described by Bánffy in an important scene set at ‘Jablanka’ in the trilogy.

69. Miklós Bánffy had cousins in almost every part of the country just north of the Great Hungarian Plain.

70. There is an echo of this sad memory in the closing pages of They Were Divided, the third volume of The Writing on the Wall, when Balint Abády watches a batch of enthusiastic young recruits singing happily as they march off to their own destruction.

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