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Ördöggörcs (Utazás Karinthyába)
Devil spasm (Voyage to Karinthya)

Author(s): Márton Karinthy
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Vörösmarty Társaság
Keywords: Father and son; the ancestors as fate; difficulties of growing up

Summary/Abstract: From the beginning of the 20th sentury the Karinthy family was a fantastic vegetation with the extraordinary genius, Frigyes Karinthy, the writer and his Bohemian circle. One of his son was an insane poet, the other one was a succesful writer and a very dominant father, Ferenc Karinthy. His son is Márton who now has tred to write up this exciting and oppressive heritage in a novel of six hundred pages. Some parts of this book are published here.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 1258-1273
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian