Search for: [Abstract = "In this article I present a literary record of impressions from a trip made by the twentieth century Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, collected in the volume titled \"On a journey\". I focus on the sketches in which he describes the experience of a contact between the European other and the exotic East. Márai visited Middle East countries, such as Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, as well as Turkey and Greece in 1925."]