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Magyarország, az 50-es évek. János politikai okokból börtönben ül, Luca, hűséges felesége képtelen ezt megmondani férje haldokló anyjának. Elhiteti a öregasszonnyal, hogy fia Amerikában dolgozik, filmet rendez. Vidám leveleket ír János nevében, amellyel valami kevés értelmet ad az anya ágyhoz kötött életének. Az öregasszony szobája a béke szigete, ahol csak a múlt él, János gyermekkora, és az amerikai levelek. Közben Luca a külvilágban nehéz küzdelmet folytat a fennmaradásért. Mint politikai fogoly feleségétől, Lucától elszigetelődnek kollégái, majd elveszti állását. Hiába fordul egykori barátaihoz – bár még magas polcon vannak – ők talán tőle is jobban félnek. A fenyegető hatalom mindenkit rettegésben tart. Azt tanácsolják az asszonynak, saját biztonsága érdekében váljon el. Ám Luca nem hajlandó elhagyni, megtagadni férjét. Aztán egy nap kiszabadul János…
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Tibor Déry
88 books27 followersTibor 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.
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.
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