Miklós Szentkuthy

Miklós Szentkuthy, born Miklós Pfisterer ( born June 2, 1908 in Budapest, † July 18, 1988 ) was a Hungarian writer and important novelist of the 20th century.

Life and work

Szentkuthys work includes numerous novels, essays, translations, and its voluminous diary from the years 1930 to 1988. Through his literary works Prae, the 10 -volume breviary St.Orpheus ' s and to the only metaphor he occupies a very important position in the Hungarian literature of the 20th century. His oeuvre was partially translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak and English. In semi - fictional biographies (including Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Brunelleschi, Cicero, Goethe, Luther ) wrote Szentkuthy imaginary chronicles, similar to the literary experiments of Jorge Luis Borges.

Szentkuthy was 26 years old when his monumental work, the Prae appeared in 1934 and it has been compared to Proust 's In Search of Lost Time and Joyce's Ulysses. Content and form, is the novel that breaks all the conventional structures, pioneered in the Hungarian literary history. It offers an incomparable panorama of the 1920s the European philosophy and culture. In 1980, he appeared in a second edition.

Since the twenties of the 20th century Szentkuthy worked on the historical novel cycle Breviarium of St.Orpheus, the first volume in 1938, entitled marginalia appeared at Casanova and has the same triggered a scandal. The accusation of blasphemy was dropped, the book came but on the black list and disappeared from the book market. In the following years he has completed the work with the sequels Black Renaissance, Escorial, Europe Minor, Cynthia, confession and puppetry. 1972 was the new " Orpheus " sequel, The Second Life of Sylvester II to the success of the entire cycle at much. Several individual volumes were moved several times and brought the writer also gained recognition abroad. Almost all the major motifs of the last 2000 years of European history - come as an object - in the tradition of great storytellers like Balzac and Zola - in the cycle before.

In 1988, the interview band frivolities and creeds appeared with his autobiographical documentary memoirs and time.

In the same year he was honored for his life's work with the highest Hungarian distinction, the Kossuth Prize in the Hungarian Parliament. On 18 July 1988 he died.

His unpublished manuscripts and some fragmentary writings were edited by his assistant and executor wife Maria Müntzberger ( Tompa ), among them Robert, the baroque man and the mirror of Narcissus and In the Footsteps of Eurydice.

The Petőfi Literary Museum in Budapest preserved Szentkuthys unpublished diaries from 1930-1988 ( in booklet form about 80-100,000 pages) on. The first part of the diaries was 2013, accessed on 25th death anniversary of the writer, the second part ( 1948-1988 ) will be opened only in 2038. For the Hungarian archive these materials are a great treasure for the understanding and the interpretation of the phenomenon Szentkuthy.

Novels and short stories

  • Pred (1934, 1980, 2004)
  • Az egyetlen metafora felé (1935, 1985)
  • Fejezet a szerelemről (1936, 1984)
  • Fekete Orpheus füzetek 1 " Széljegyzetek Casanovához " [ Marginalia on Casanova ] ( 1939 2008); 2 Fekete Reneszánsz [ Black Renaissance ] (1939 ); 3 Eszkoriál (1940 ); 4 Europe minor ( 1941) 5 Cynthia (1941 ) 6 Vallomás és bábjáték (1942 ).
  • Divertimento. Változatok Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart életére (1957, 1976, 1998, 2006)
  • Cicero vándorévei ( 1945, 1990)
  • Doctor Haydn (1959, 1979, 2009)
  • Burgundi Krónika (1959, 1978)
  • Hitvita és nászinduló: Wittenberg, Bizánc (1960 )
  • Arc és Alarc (Johann Wolfgang Goethe ) (1962, 1982)
  • Megszabadított Jeruzsálem (1965 )
  • Saturnus fia [ Albrecht Dürer életregénye ] ( 1966 1989)
  • Angyali Gigi (1966 )
  • Handel (1967, 1975)
  • Meghatározások és szerepek (1969 )
  • Szent Orpheus breviáriuma Vol.1. - 10th
  • Szárnyatlan oltárok: Burgundi Krónika, Wittenberg ( 1978)

Posthumously published:

  • Barokk Róbert ( 1991, 2002)
  • Bianca Lanza di Casa Lanza (1994 )
  • Nárcisszus tükre (1995)
  • Bezárult Európa (2000)
  • Pendragon és XIII. Apolló. 2008)
  • Meghatározások és szerepek (1969 )
  • Múzsák testamentuma (1985)
  • Iniciálék és ámenek (1987).
  • Frivolitások és hitvallások (1988 )
  • Agoston olvasás közben (1993 )
  • Az alázat kalendáriuma 1998)
  • Fájdalmok és titkok játéka (2001)

In foreign languages ​​appeared:

German:

  • Breviary of St. Orpheus, " Pannonia, Number 1 (1985). Excerpt.
  • Divertimento. A reading book for Hungarian literature, Hungarian focus of the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurt: 1999). Extract.

English:

  • Marginalia on Casanova 2012 New York
  • Towards the One and Only Metaphor. New York 2013

French:

  • Vers l' unique métaphore (Paris, 1991)
  • En marge de Casanova ( 1991)
  • Renaissance noire (1991 )
  • Escorial (1993 )
  • Chroniques Burgondes (1996 )
  • En lisant Augustin (1996 )
  • Le Calendrier de l' humilité (1998)
  • Robert baroque (1998)
  • Confessions frivolous (1999)
  • Europe Minor (aux éditions Phebus, 2006)

Portuguese:

  • Margem de Casanova ( 1992)
  • Escorial (1999)

Romanian:

  • Bianca Lanza di Casa Lanza (1999)

Slovak:

  • Divertimento. Variacie na zivot Wolfganga Amadea Mozarta (1990 )

Spanish:

  • A Proposito de Casanova ( 2002)
  • Renacimiento Negro ( 2007)
  • En lisant Augustin ( 2013).
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