Comments on: ‘The Tolstoy of Transylvania’

By: Marie Moncelon

Marie Moncelon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:00:24 +0000

I give my salute and thanks for the post of Baron von Hetterscheidt, whom pensées are completely in conformity with mines. I’m glad to read that, because such énoncés are so few written on public pages. Sorry for my bad english.

By: Mary O'Regan

Mary O'Regan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:55:42 +0000

Dear Andrew Cusack,
This is my first reading of your blog – well done – it’s both fascinating and entertaining.
I know a devout Cathoic in London, the city in which I reside. This ‘devout Catholic’ speaks fluent Hungarian. The Hungarian government commended him for his fluency. I will give him the word about this blog post ‘next time I see him in Corpus Christi.

By: Baron v Hetterscheidt

Baron v Hetterscheidt — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:47:00 +0000

A caveat: the old order did not end with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, as deplorable and catastrophic an event as that was. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers.
Had they won, then the old order would have continued right up until today. No Hitler, no Stalin, no Labour governments in Britain, a likely restoration of the monarchy in France; the list is endless.

By: Juan Novillo Astrada

Juan Novillo Astrada — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:47:49 +0000

Dear Andrew,
Unfortunately we cannot see the comments properly.
Thanks, Juan

By: Andrew Cusack

Andrew Cusack — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:53:01 +0000

There are more Hapsburgian writers than Banffy (who was a Protestant after all). Joseph Roth, for example (an Austrian Jewish Catholic), known for his novel The Radetzky March.

By: Jason Reese

Jason Reese — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:07:48 +0000

Thank you for this post; I was just bemoaning my lack of familiarity with Hapsburg literature.

By: Andrew Cusack

Andrew Cusack — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:53:15 +0000

I have no comments to give on that subject.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:28:51 +0000

This is entirely unrelated to this subject.
I am wondering if you, as a young man of erudition and sophistication, would give us your comments on the notorious Mrs Iris Robinson of Belfast?