Gyula Krúdy

Gyula Krúdy ( born October 21, 1878 in Nyíregyháza, † May 12, 1933 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer. He was a great prose writer of modern Hungarian literature at the time of the fin de siècle. An essence of his literary style is the fine game with the means of expression of irony and melancholy, nostalgia and realism.

Life

Gyula Krúdy was born in 1878 in Nyíregyháza, the son of a small aristocratic lawyer. His mother was an auxiliary worker, who married the father after the birth of the eighth child. Krúdy was against the will of his father, a writer. Success came quickly, but at the end of his life was the interest in his literary works after. Only in the 1950s, his work was rediscovered and appreciated by the new Hungarian literature.

At the age of fourteen years Krúdy published his first short story. In 1896 he went as a journalist in Budapest and in 1914 became a member of the Petőfi Society. In 1930 Gyula Krúdy the Baumgarten Prize. His extensive literary work includes 87 novels and about 2400 short stories. He also wrote some 2,000 newspaper articles. Krúdy died penniless in 1933 in Budapest.

Selected Works

  • OSZI versenyek
  • Üres a fészek (1897 ), first stories
  • Az Aranybanya (1900), novel
  • A Podolini kísértet (1906 ), novel
  • Szindbád ifjúsága és utazásai (1911 ), stories
  • Francia kastély (1912 ), novel
  • A vörös Postakocsi (1913 ), novel
  • Palotai álmok (1914), novel
  • Szindbád: A Feltámadás (1915 ), stories
  • Aranykéz utcai szép napok (1916 ), stories
  • OSZI utazások a vörös postakocsin (1917 ), novel
  • Napraforgó (1918 ), novel
  • Asszonyságok dija (1919), novel
  • N. N. (1920), novel
  • With látott Vak Béla és szerelemben bánatban ( 1921), novel
  • Nagy Kope ( 1921), novel
  • Hét Bagoly (1922 ), novel
  • Az utitárs (1922 ), novel
  • Valakit elvisz az Ördög (1928 ), novel
  • Boldogult úrfikoromban (1930 ), novel
  • Az élet álom (1931 ), stories
  • A kékszalag Pants ( 1931), novel
  • Purgatory (1933 ), novel
  • Rezeda Kázmér szép elete (1933 ), novel

Current German translations

  • Serenade from durchstochnen heart. Sinbad stories. Bund- Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 978-3-766307965.
  • My time. Novel, Dtv, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-423241724.
  • The red stagecoach. Novel, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-518395561.
  • The specter of Podolin. Novel, Kortina Verlag, Wien 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502315-6-4.
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