Culture blogs in Hungary

Károly Balla presents Hungarian culture blogs, which often deliver more up-to-the-minute, more authentic, and more lively reports on the cultural scene than traditional media. For example, take the "Könyvesblog" (book blog): "Traditional newspapers and magazines react very late to new publications; their critics talk shop and are barely comprehensible to 'normal' readers. It seems they only write for and about each other, taking great care not to depart from the dogma of the day. That's how such untouchable 'gods' of Hungarian literature are made, about whom you can never write anything bad. Authors whose praises are sung by the prevailing, self-congratulatory authorities are on their way to becoming taboo. The young book bloggers haven't got too much respect for either the literary elite or for authority; they write their opinions openly and candidly, even if they end up coming down hard on one poet or another."

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