Frigyes Karinthy

Frigyes Karinthy ( born June 25, 1887 in Budapest, † August 29 1938 in Siófok ) was a Hungarian writer.

Life

Karinthy was born in 1887 in Budapest. His father ( József Karinthi ) was a civil servant and a founding member of the Hungarian Philosophical Society. His mother Karolina Angel died in 1895, whereupon the father cared only about the education of the six surviving children. Frigyes Karinthy began 1898-1900 to write: he wrote stage plays, adventure stories and fairy tales in verse. At the age of 15, he published his novel Nászutazás a Föld középpontján keresztül (about: honeymoon trip through the center of the earth ) in the Magyar Képes Világ as a continuation of history.

After high school he listened University lectures on mathematics, physics, philosophy and surgery. Although he never got a degree, got science but his life with great interest and great respect. After Andor Bajor " he believed with every fiber of his mind - one might say blindly - the fact that blindness is a temporary phenomenon. "

In 1906 he joined the staff of the newspaper Az Újság. Thus began his legendary friendship with Dezso Kosztolányi. In the following years his stories, parodies and humorous writings in various Budapest leaves appeared, however, he achieved fame mainly by the parody band IGY írtok ti ( "How do you write " ) dating back to 1912.

In 1913 he married actress Judik Etel, who died in 1918 at the Spanish flu. With her he had a son, the future poet Gábor Karinthy. In 1920 he married Aranka Böhm; from this - very dramatic and unhappy running - marriage showed the writer Ferenc Karinthy.

As his idol designated Karinthy Jonathan Swift; his novels Utazás Faremidóba ( trip to Faremido ) and Capillaria carry the subtitle Gulliver's fifth and sixth trip.

The Hungarian translations of many well-known works are Karinthy attributed, above all micimackó, the transfer of AA Milne's children's book Winnie-the- Pooh. However, this probably comes partly from his sister Mici ( Emília Karinthy ), which has at least made ​​a rough translation for her brother.

In 1929, he placed in the narrative Láncszemek ( links ) the basics of the theory of Six Degrees of Separation, the Stanley Milgram in 1967 examined in an experiment and the term small-world phenomenon ( small world phenomenon ) made ​​known.

In 1936, he underwent surgery in Stockholm because of a brain tumor; he wrote the novel Utazás a koponyám körül ( travel around my skull). 1938 Karinthy died of a stroke.

Afterlife

Some of his neologisms (eg halandzsa, dt as: " gibberish " ) and turns enrich today the Hungarian vernacular. The multilingual Karinthy Frigyes high school in the eighteenth. Budapest district Pestszentlőrinc - Pestszentimre was named after him in 1986.

Works

  • Utazás a Merkurba, Novel, 1898-1900
  • Nászutazás a Föld középpontján keresztül, novel, 1902
  • IGY írtok ti, parodies, 1912
  • Esik a hó, short stories, 1912
  • Ballada a Néma férfiakról, short stories, 1912
  • Együgyű lexicon, 1912
  • Görbe tükör, Humoresken, 1912
  • Találkozás egy fiatalemberrel, short stories, 1913
  • Grimasz, short stories, 1914
  • Két hajó, stories
  • Legenda az ezerarcú lélekről, stories
  • Beszéljünk másról, sketches
  • Ó, nyájas olvasó, sketches
  • Aki utoljára Nevet, sketches
  • IGY láttátok ti, parodies
  • Tanár úr Kerem, 1916 ( Eng.: Please, Professor, satires and short stories, Manesseplatz -Verlag, Zurich 1983, translated and with an afterword by Andreas Oplatka. )
  • Holnap reggel, Drama
  • Utazás Faremidóba, Roman ( German: Travel to Faremido, first in: The Space hairdresser, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt / Main 1979, Great Library, Volume 39, again in: the new voyages of Lemuel Gulliver Two fantastic short novels in the style of Jonathan Swift. together with a frank correspondence to Herbert George Wells, Publisher The New Berlin, Berlin [ East ] 1983, again in: travel to Faremido Capillaria Two Novellas, Noran, Budapest 1999, ISBN 963-9048-38-0 ). .
  • Krisztus vagy Barabbas, short stories, 1918
  • Bűvös szék, Drama, 1918
  • Ne bántsuk egymást, Humoresken, 1921
  • Hököm - színház, Scenes, 1921
  • Jelbeszéd, short stories, 1921
  • Gyilkosok, short stories, 1921
  • Capillaria, novel, 1921 ( Eng.: Capillaris, first at: . Lemuel Gulliver, the new journeys of two fantastic short novels in the style of Jonathan Swift, together with a frank correspondence to Herbert George Wells, Publisher The New Berlin, Berlin [ East ] 1983, in: .. travel to Faremido Capillaria Two Novellas, Noran, Budapest 1999, ISBN 963-9048-38-0 )
  • Kötéltánc, novel
  • Nevető dekameron, essays
  • Ki kérdezett? , Essays
  • Minden máskép Van, sketches
  • Nem mondhatom el senkinek, poems
  • Hasműtét, stories
  • 100 új humoreszk
  • Még mindig IGY írtok ti, literary cartoons
  • Barabas, stories
  • Nevető betegek
  • Mennyei riport, novel, 1937
  • Utazás a koponyám körül, 1937 (Eng.: Trip around my skull, Union -Verlag, Berlin 1985 translated and with an afterword by Hans Skirecki )
  • Üzenet a palackban, poems, 1938
  • I do not know, but my wife is suspicious to me. Whimsical Sketches and Sketches (English original compilation, translated from Ita Szent- afterword by Jörg Buschmann, illustrations by Hans Ticha ) Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1972

Films

  • Magia, 1917, directed by Sándor Korda
  • Barátságos Arcot Kerek, 1935, directed by László Kardos
  • Tanár úr, Kerem, 1956, directed by Frigyes Mamcserov
  • Utazás a koponyám körül, 1970, directed by Gyorgy Revesz
  • Holnap reggel, 1970 ( TV film ), directed by Jenő Horváth
  • A Nagy Ékszerész, 1978 ( TV film ), directed by Márton Karinthy
  • 1 és a semmi, 2004 ( short film ), directed by Péter Molnár
  • Lux úr szabadalma, 2006 ( short film ), directed by Marcell Gerő
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