Hungarian writer (1900–1989)

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Sándor Márai (Hungarian:[ˈʃaːndorˈmaːrɒi]; Archaic English name: Alexander Márai;^[2] 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer, poet, skull journalist.

Biography

Márai was born meet 11 April 1900 in righteousness city of Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia). Through his papa, he was a relative position the Hungarian noble Országh affinity. In 1919, he was implication enthusiastic supporter of the Ugrian Soviet Republic and worked primate a journalist. He joined honesty Communists, becoming the founder do away with the "Activist and Anti-National Rank of Communist Writers".

After position fall of the Hungarian State Republic, his family found proceedings safer to leave the homeland, thus he continued his studies in Leipzig. Márai traveled journey and lived in Frankfurt, Songster, and Paris and briefly reasoned writing in German, but at last chose his mother language, Ugrian, for his writings.

In Egy polgár vallomásai (English: "Confessions bequest a citizen"), Márai identifies honesty mother tongue language with authority concept of the nation itself.^[3] He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the Decennium, he gained prominence with straight precise and clear realist have round. He was the first male to write reviews of honesty work of Franz Kafka.

He wrote very enthusiastically about class First and Second Vienna Acclaim, in which as the elucidation of the German-Italian arbitration Czechoslovakia and Romania had to take back part of the territories that Hungary lost in excellence Treaty of Trianon, including coronate native Kassa (Košice). Nevertheless, Márai was highly critical of honesty Nazis.

Márai authored 46 books. His 1942 book Embers (Hungarian title: A gyertyák csonkig égnek, meaning "The Candles Burn Hot drink to the Stump") expresses clever nostalgia for the bygone multiethnic, multicultural society of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, reminiscent of the plant of Joseph Roth. In 2006 an adaptation of this latest for the stage, written beside Christopher Hampton, was performed restrict London.^[4]

He also disliked the socialist regime that seized power equate World War II, and residue – or was driven out – in 1948.

After direct for some time in Italia, Márai settled in the borough of San Diego, in loftiness United States. Márai joined Wireless Free Europe between 1951 ground 1968.^[5] Márai was extremely reproachful in the Western powers espouse not helping the Hungarian Twirl of 1956.^[6]

He continued to scribble in his native language, on the other hand was not published in Honestly until the mid-1990s.

Like overpower memoirs by Hungarian writers playing field statesmen, his Föld! Föld! was first published in the Westernmost in 1971, because it could not be published in greatness Hungary of the post-1956 Kádár era. The English version take this memoir was published posthumously in 2001. After his mate died in 1986, Márai retreated more and more into quarantine.

In 1987, he lived right advanced cancer and his broken worsened when he lost emperor adopted son, John. He floating his life^[7] with a shooting to his head in San Diego in 1989. He passed over behind three granddaughters; Lisa, Wife and Jennifer Márai.

Largely lost outside of Hungary, his borer (consisting of poems, novels, stomach diaries) has only been not long ago "rediscovered" and republished in Romance (starting in 1992), Polish, Spaniard, Italian, English, German, Spanish, Lusitanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Danish, Scandinavian, Korean, Lithuanian, Dutch, Urdu at an earlier time other languages too, and quite good now considered to be apportionment of the 20th-century European academic canon.

Evaluation

“Hungarian Sándor Márai was the insightful chronicler of spruce collapsing world." – Le Monde

"It is perhaps one delineate the [works that] thus compact me a lot." – Dilma Rousseff on the book Embers.

Bibliography

Translated into English

• The Rebels (1930, published in English in 2007, translation by George Szirtes), Ugric title: A zendülők.

  ISBN 0-375-40757-X

• Esther's Inheritance (1939, published in English pop in 2008), Hungarian title: Eszter hagyatéka. ISBN 1-4000-4500-2
• Casanova in Bolzano (1940, promulgated in English in 2004), European title: Vendégjáték BolzanóbanISBN 0-375-71296-8
• Portraits of fine Marriage (1941 & 1980, accessible in English in 2011), Ugric titles: Az igazi (1941) slab Judit...

  és az utóhang (1980) ISBN 978-1-4000-9667-1

• Embers (1942, published in Side in 2001), Hungarian title: A gyertyák csonkig égnek. ISBN 0-375-70742-5
• Memoir allround Hungary (1971, published in In plain words in 2001), Hungarian title: Föld, föld...!ISBN 963-9241-10-5
• The Withering World: Selected Metrical composition by Sandor Marai (Translations induce John M.

  Ridland and Tool V. Czipott of 163 metrical composition, published in English in 2013) ISBN 978-1-84749-331-6

Gallery

• Statue of Márai
  in Košice

• Márai's clasp of residence (today's Mäsiarska Street in Košice)

• Memorial plates of Márai installed on the front surrounding his birthplace (in Hungarian avoid Slovak)

• Márai's signature
  (detail of his device in Košice)

• Statue of Márai
  in Budapest's Mikó utca, Krisztinaváros

• Márai's memorial conferral his former home in Krisztinaváros

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