March for Szeged people normally is the time to remember and celebrate the River Tisza. March 22 is World Water Day and March 12 is Flood Day in Szeged. This March we’re so preoccupied with the COVID-19 epidemic that we seem to have forgotten about the anniversary of the 1879 Great Flood of Szeged. I’d…
Paprika is in the air is the title of a collection of essays, short stories and articles written by Zsigmond Móricz, early-20th century writer and columnist. Móricz was non-native to Szeged, only a visitor, but the city captured him physically and mentally as he kept returning and writing about the city and its people. As…
In this Paprika & Chili blog I have already written about representations of paprika in Hungarian literature. Now I’d like to continue with a series of literary texts written by early-20th century writer and columnist, Zsigmond Móricz. The stories appeared in his prose collection called Paprika is in the air. Móricz was non-native to Szeged, but…
We are in the middle of celebrating Szeged City Festival and now is the time to remember another emblematic object of the city: Szegedi papucs. Szeged slippers were sewn and embroidered by hand and they did not come in pairs, that is, they were without a right and left foot version. It was often said…