Viktor Kubiszyn
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Viktor Kubiszyn (born 1979) is a Hungarian writer. He studied film theory, film history, Hungarian linguistics and literature, as well as aesthetics, at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest between 1998 and 2006.
His articles, film reviews, reports, interviews and essays have been published since 2002 in prominent Hungarian journals and Internet sites (Beszélő, Litera, Filmvilág, Film.hu, etc.), and collected into his first book, published in 2011 as Filmflesskönyv (Film-trip-book). His first, autobiographical novel, Drognapló (Drug Diary), a documentary novel, was also published in 2011, achieving instant success.
Kubiszyn was born in Miskolc on 16 Nov. 1979, and has lived since 1986 in Budapest. He graduated in 1998 from the Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnázium (Berzsenyi High School). From 1998 to 2006 he was a student at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities (ELTE BTK) .
He spent one part of his past junkie life in the 8th district of Budapest, Józsefváros, near the historic )Inner City district which he often calls "the Zone". This part of the city is the poorest area of Budapest with a bad reputation. The area is a traditional craftsmen neighborhood, which became a slum in the previous decades.
Filmflesskönyv
His first book was published by Underground Kiadó in 2011 as Filmflesskönyv (Film-trip-book), a collection of articles and essays. It contains his film criticisms which were published mostly in the "Filmhu" movie page and "Filmvilág" between 2003 and 2006. He has also published in “Pergő Képek”, "Beszélő", "Mozinet Magazin" and “Árgus”.
The following is an extract from the preface to the book written by András Vágvölgyi B.: "Viktor Kubiszyn is not a production-line worker of daily film criticism; Viktor Kubiszyn is an author with directions. His choices of values and topics are counter-cultural; he prefers elevating and praising to bad-mouthing, criticizing and cutting his way forward in the world of motion pictures. Underground, drug movies; alchemy in 24 frames per second, celluloid culture from the 60s through our times". (translated by Paul Crowson)[1]
