A Short Break in Budapest: A film-text

By Bernard Sharratt

Paul arrives in Budapest to give a lecture, but finds himself seeking an elusive woman, and increasingly caught up in some odd connections between football hooliganism, a mafia protection racket, a shooting or two, and the strange work of a dissident sculptor. And all he really wanted to do was get a freebie trip out of the British Council and, finally, eat some Hungarian goulash.

Film-texts are in the format of a film-script, but are not designed for actual film production. They are intended to be read and imagined, and play with a variety of familiar film genres, including romantic comedy, political thriller, and tourist guide: a kind of fantasy travel souvenir.

Other NCQ film-texts are set in Athens, Prague, Rome, Venice, and fourth-century Egypt.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910956120
• ISBN13: 9781910956120
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: New Crisis Quarterly
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"