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The Hungarian Sea – a short story from 1910 by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek. This humorous story is about the fictional mayor of a fictional town near the shores of Hungary’s (real) Lake Balaton. The mayor – usually in the local pub and from behind many glasses of wine – endlessly defends his Balaton as THE deepest and largest body of water in the world. If necessary any souls (travellers from abroad, local figures) challenging his point of view would be beaten or perhaps only run out of the pub. New Hungarian translations of some of this writer’s works were published in 2024.