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一个市民的自白 #3
一个市民的自白：我本想沉默
从希特勒进入维也纳之日开始，市民社会的文明到底遭遇了怎样的命运？匈牙利何以失去理智，走上刀锋？
马洛伊·山多尔立足广泛而细腻的观察，详尽地记录并剖析事关匈牙利命运的一系列关键事件：德奥合并日、匈牙利苏维埃共和国的成立与颠覆、纳粹德国的反犹太主义、布达佩斯之围，以及对欧洲政治形势造成深远影响的两个重要条约：《特里亚农条约》《维也纳仲裁裁决》。他通过力透纸背的书写，再现了国内外势力在匈牙利政治舞台的暗中角力，进而审视旋涡中心的匈牙利民族，并对市民阶层知识分子所应承担的国家与社会使命提出诘问，诠释出责任一词的全部重量。他更通过三位政府总理——贝特兰·伊什特万、泰莱吉·帕尔、巴尔多希·拉斯洛的悲剧性人生，深刻地洞察到了市民主义必然走向覆灭的命运。
他本想沉默，但最终无法沉默。他要留下证词，让历史成为未来的明镜。
马洛伊·山多尔立足广泛而细腻的观察，详尽地记录并剖析事关匈牙利命运的一系列关键事件：德奥合并日、匈牙利苏维埃共和国的成立与颠覆、纳粹德国的反犹太主义、布达佩斯之围，以及对欧洲政治形势造成深远影响的两个重要条约：《特里亚农条约》《维也纳仲裁裁决》。他通过力透纸背的书写，再现了国内外势力在匈牙利政治舞台的暗中角力，进而审视旋涡中心的匈牙利民族，并对市民阶层知识分子所应承担的国家与社会使命提出诘问，诠释出责任一词的全部重量。他更通过三位政府总理——贝特兰·伊什特万、泰莱吉·帕尔、巴尔多希·拉斯洛的悲剧性人生，深刻地洞察到了市民主义必然走向覆灭的命运。
他本想沉默，但最终无法沉默。他要留下证词，让历史成为未来的明镜。
226 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1935
About the author
Sándor Márai
182 books1,237 followersSándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienna Awards, in which Germany forced Czechoslovakia and Romania to give back part of the territories which Hungary lost in the Treaty of Trianon. Nevertheless, Márai was highly critical of the Nazis as such and was considered "profoundly antifascist," a dangerous position to take in wartime Hungary.
Marai authored forty-six books, mostly novels, and was considered by literary critics to be one of Hungary's most influential representatives of middle class literature between the two world wars. His 1942 book Embers (Hungarian title: A gyertyák csonkig égnek, meaning "The Candles Burn Down to the Stump") expresses a nostalgia for the bygone multi-ethnic, multicultural society of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, reminiscent of the works of Joseph Roth. In 2006 an adaptation of this novel for the stage, written by Christopher Hampton, was performed in London.
He also disliked the Communist regime that seized power after World War II, and left – or was driven away – in 1948. After living for some time in Italy, Márai settled in the city of San Diego, California, in the United States.
He continued to write in his native language, but was not published in English until the mid-1990s. Márai's Memoir of Hungary (1944-1948) provides an interesting glimpse of post World War II Hungary under Soviet occupation. Like other memoirs by Hungarian writers and statesmen, it was first published in the West, because it could not be published in the Hungary of the post-1956 Kádár era. The English version of the memoir was published posthumously in 1996. After his wife died, Márai retreated more and more into isolation. He committed suicide by a gunshot to his head in San Diego in 1989.
Largely forgotten outside of Hungary, his work (consisting of poems, novels, and diaries) has only been recently "rediscovered" and republished in French (starting in 1992), Polish, Catalan, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Icelandic, Korean, Dutch, and other languages too, and is now considered to be part of the European Twentieth Century literary canon.
He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienna Awards, in which Germany forced Czechoslovakia and Romania to give back part of the territories which Hungary lost in the Treaty of Trianon. Nevertheless, Márai was highly critical of the Nazis as such and was considered "profoundly antifascist," a dangerous position to take in wartime Hungary.
Marai authored forty-six books, mostly novels, and was considered by literary critics to be one of Hungary's most influential representatives of middle class literature between the two world wars. His 1942 book Embers (Hungarian title: A gyertyák csonkig égnek, meaning "The Candles Burn Down to the Stump") expresses a nostalgia for the bygone multi-ethnic, multicultural society of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, reminiscent of the works of Joseph Roth. In 2006 an adaptation of this novel for the stage, written by Christopher Hampton, was performed in London.
He also disliked the Communist regime that seized power after World War II, and left – or was driven away – in 1948. After living for some time in Italy, Márai settled in the city of San Diego, California, in the United States.
He continued to write in his native language, but was not published in English until the mid-1990s. Márai's Memoir of Hungary (1944-1948) provides an interesting glimpse of post World War II Hungary under Soviet occupation. Like other memoirs by Hungarian writers and statesmen, it was first published in the West, because it could not be published in the Hungary of the post-1956 Kádár era. The English version of the memoir was published posthumously in 1996. After his wife died, Márai retreated more and more into isolation. He committed suicide by a gunshot to his head in San Diego in 1989.
Largely forgotten outside of Hungary, his work (consisting of poems, novels, and diaries) has only been recently "rediscovered" and republished in French (starting in 1992), Polish, Catalan, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Icelandic, Korean, Dutch, and other languages too, and is now considered to be part of the European Twentieth Century literary canon.
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