Der unvollendete Satz

by Tibor Déry

Der Roman ›Der unvollendete Satz‹ ist aufs engste verknüpft mit der politischen Geschichte Ungarns in den zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren. Während in den Budapester Salons der Familie Parcen-Nagy und in dem mondänen Badeort Dubrovnik eine Gesellschaft ihren Glanz entfaltet und während eine Finanzkrise die Budapester Industrie zwingt, ihre Fabriken zu schließen, formiert sich in den Elendsvierteln der Stadt der Widerstand der Unterdrückten gegen die Ungerechtigkeit des Systems.(Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Genres: Novels

950 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Tibor Déry was a Hungarian writer, born in Budapest in 1894. In his early years he was a supporter of communism, but after being excluded from the ranks of the Hungarian Communist Party in 1953 he started writing satire on the communist regime in Hungary.

Georg Lukács praised Dery as being 'the greatest depicter of human beings of our time'.

In 1918, Déry became an active party member in the liberal republic under Mihály Károlyi. Less than a year later however, Béla Kun and his Communist Party rose to power, proclaiming the Hungarian Soviet Republic and exiling Déry. He only returned to Hungary in 1934, having lived in Austria, France and Germany in the meantime. Nevertheless, during the right wing Horthy regime he was imprisoned several times, once because he translated André Gide's Retour de L'U.R.S.S.. In this period, he wrote his greatest novel, The Unfinished Sentence, a 1200-page epic story about the life of the young aristocrat Lorinc Parcen-Nagy who gets into contact with the working classes in Budapest during a period of strike.

In 1953, Déry was expelled from the Communist Party during a 'cleansing' of Hungarian literature. In 1956 he was a spokesman during the uprising, alongside Georg Lukács and Gyula Háy. In the same year, he wrote Niki: The Story of a Dog, a fable about the arbitrary restrictions on human life in Stalinist Hungary. Because of his part in the uprising, he was sentenced to prison for 9 years, but released in 1960. He died in 1977.

He translated Rudyard Kipling's Naulahka and The Lord of the Flies by William Goldinginto Hungarian.

Reviews

[Agnes Kelemen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Első olvasásra nem tetszett annyira, de kb. 10 évvel később, mádosik olvasásra nagyon.

[Citrom Citrom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Az egyik legjobb magyar regény (eleve nincs sok jó, csak egy maroknyi!); sajnálatosan nemhogy külföldön nem olvassák, de Magyarországon sem...