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Ferenc Karinthy


Born
in Budapest, Hungary
June 02, 1921

Died
February 29, 1992


Ferenc Karinthy was a novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator, as well as a water polo champion. He wrote more than a dozen novels. Epepe ("Metropole") and Budapesti Tavasz ("Spring Comes to Budapest") have been translated into English, as have two of his plays.

Karinthy worked as a script editor for Nemzeti Színház and Madách Theatre, as well as theatres in Miskolc, Szeged and Debrecen. Between 1957 and 1960, Karinthy translated a number of writers into Hungarian including Machiavelli and Molière. He won a number of awards for his own writing including the Baumgarten Prize, the József Attila Prize and the Kossuth Prize.
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Metropole

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Tempi felici

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Budapesti tavasz

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Epepe

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Szellemidézés

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Marich Géza utolsó kalandja

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“Pintér Zoltán a délelőttöt azzal töltötte, hogy olvasmányaiból kis, négyszögletes papírszeletkékre írta ki a készülő szakdolgozatához felhasználható adatokat. Harmadik esztendeje küszködött tárgyával, a magyar nyelv reformkori állapotával, könyvtárnyi irodalmat olvasott és jegyzetelt ki hozzá, de attól, hogy s dolgozat megírásának nekikezdjen, távolabb érezte magát, mint eddig. Sokévi fáradságának eredménye mindössze néhány ezer ilyen kis cédula volt. [...]
— A múltkor olvastam egy regényt, ott mondta valaki: „Bölcsész vagyok, a felesleges tudományok doktora.” Jutka homlokára kirajzolódott az a gondolkozó kis ránc — Ezt nem mondhatja komolyan. Hiszen nem csinálná, ha igazán feleslegesnek hinné. — Miért? Kinek lesz haszna abból, hogy én négy évig cédulázom a reformkor nyelvállapotát? Változtat az a világon? Az egyetemen, a szomszédos intézetben dolgozott egy ember, igazi zseni, húsz nyelven olvas. Tudja, mit csinál? Hetedik esztendeje írja tanulmányát: Kísérletek néhány bolgár-török igekötő megfejtésére.”
Ferenc Karinthy, Budapesti tavasz

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