Hungary as a Sport Superpower

Foreword by Fabien Archambault

Embarking on research and dedicating several years of one’s life to it is sometimes driven by the principle of necessity: when one cannot find anything concise and satisfying to read on a subject, whatever it may be, one must resolve to tackle it oneself, whatever the cost. In this case, the price to pay for Lorenzo Venuti was quite high: for an Italian with no particular links to Hungary, it first meant learning a language that few Europeans make the effort to master. One of the notable merits of this book is to provide access to an impressive array of sources that, without this patient and tenacious work, would have remained inaccessible to the research community, generally unable to work on documents from ...