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Dziennik 1949-1956
Drugi tom (tom pierwszy 2016 r.) bardzo rozszerzonego wyboru dzienników Sándora Máraiego (1900–1989), jednego z najwybitniejszych dwudziestowiecznych pisarzy węgierskich.
Pisanie dziennika autor Wyznań patrycjusza rozpoczął w 1943 roku i kontynuował aż do samobójczej śmierci w 1989. W „Czytelniku” ukazał się dotychczas jednotomowy wybór z tego niezwykle obszernego diariusza. Publikowany obecnie tom, obejmujący lata 1949–1956, stanowi drugą część nowej, pięciotomowej edycji.
Dziennik Máraiego to dzieło intelektualisty, który w swoich notatkach zawarł refleksję nad światem, przemyślenia z lektur, ocenę socjologiczną i moralną współczesnych społeczeństw, namysł nad kondycją ludzką. Głębia myśli, bezwarunkowa uczciwość w ocenianiu otoczenia i siebie samego, błyskotliwość sformułowań, ironia i finezyjny dowcip – wszystko to nie pozwala oderwać się od lektury tej niezwykłej książki.
Pisanie dziennika autor Wyznań patrycjusza rozpoczął w 1943 roku i kontynuował aż do samobójczej śmierci w 1989. W „Czytelniku” ukazał się dotychczas jednotomowy wybór z tego niezwykle obszernego diariusza. Publikowany obecnie tom, obejmujący lata 1949–1956, stanowi drugą część nowej, pięciotomowej edycji.
Dziennik Máraiego to dzieło intelektualisty, który w swoich notatkach zawarł refleksję nad światem, przemyślenia z lektur, ocenę socjologiczną i moralną współczesnych społeczeństw, namysł nad kondycją ludzką. Głębia myśli, bezwarunkowa uczciwość w ocenianiu otoczenia i siebie samego, błyskotliwość sformułowań, ironia i finezyjny dowcip – wszystko to nie pozwala oderwać się od lektury tej niezwykłej książki.
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528 pages, Hardcover
Published May 26, 2017
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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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February 19, 2025
Wspaniała lektura - świadectwo czasów, hołd dla Neapolu, złożony obraz Nowego Jorku, losy intelektualisty chwilę po wojnie, piękne zdania i wiele gorzkości. Jest tu bardzo wiele dla każdego czytelnika, który choć trochę ciekawy jest tamtych miejsc i czasów. Wiele z motywów zasługiwałoby tu na osobne opracowania.
March 4, 2021
Liked a lot. One of the greatest memoirs I have read in my life.
July 14, 2024
Skarbnica wiedzy o pisarzu, jego życiu i tym razem o Stanach, do których był zmuszony emigrować
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