"There is one pre-war Hungarian writer I would like to mention, however: Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938). He was primarily known as a satirist and humorist and in fact, his satiric writings were absolutely brilliant. In a series of longer short stories, though, he explored the themes of extreme psychic disintegration. Clearly he was trying to see how far he could push the Hungarian language in these stories, what happens to it when subjected to a maximum level of psychic breakdown. I see some of these experimental writings as something of a precursor to Krasznahorkai’s work within Hungarian literature, although I have to add here I don’t know if Krasznahorkai himself would consider this to be the case."JFK, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Six Degrees of Separation and other High Weirdness (Overweening Generalist, November 23, 2013)
"11. Ever heard of Frigyes Karinthy? He was a Hungarian Jew who died in 1938 and probably invented the idea of Six Degrees of Separation...around 1929? (He may have been influenced by radio man Marconi.) In 1936 he had an operation for a brain tumor, and then wrote an autobiographical book Voyage Around My Skull, which came out a year after he died and was re-released in English in 2008 with an introduction by Oliver Sacks. Karinthy's still popular in Hungary, and his books are marked by science fiction ideas, comedy, play with Jonathan Swift's characters, pacifism, the themes of adolescence and the battle of the sexes. His humor is black and ironic. He espoused Esperanto. He also speculated about Artificial Intelligence long before it was invented.”Kledon: The experience of altering meaning and significance in fine art by György Szász. Theses for a DLA dissertation, Hungarian University of Fine Art Doctoral School, 2008.
"In many works we see the multiplicity of the notion of the present or that of reality. Karinthy Frigyes (Five o’clock Closing Time, 1918): “I dreamed I was two cats and that I played with myself.”This story has not been translated into English, to my knowledge.
Mi enretigis la jenan rakonton el la novelaro Okuloj (La Laguna: J. Regulo / Stafeto, 1967):Eminenta hungara literaturologo Prof-o Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (23 junio 1943 - 24 julio 2016) ĵus mortis. En septembro 2012 mi korespondis kun li pri Imre Madách (pri kiu li multe verkis), György Lukács, kaj Sándor Szathmári. Interalie, li respondis, pri manko de traduko el la hungara de la eseo Madách tragédiája de 1955 de Lukács, ke li provus aranĝi tradukon. Evidente tio ne plenumiĝis. Lastatempe mi skribis al li enketon pri Frigyes Karinthy rilate al Lukács. Li ne respondis; nun mi scias la kialon.
Mi resumis lian vidpunkton pri Madách en mia eseo "La tragedio de l' homo en tri medioj" en Beletra Almanako n-ro 23, junio 2015, p. 95-102. Jen mia koncerna afiŝo:
La tragedio de l' homo & mi
Sube, mi iom pli detaligas lian fakan laboron en la angla.
There are three essays about Hungary in the third volume. There is one about Hungarian literary historiography, one about the historical role of Nyugat, and this:
"The Introduction of Communist Censorship in Hungary: 1945–49" by Mihály Szegedy-Maszák (pp. 114-125).
The author is a well-known scholar of Hungarian literature. Here we find a harsh condemnation of Lukács, covering the period from his return to Hungary in 1949 to his condemnation by the very Stalinists on whose behalf he acted. He is reported to have been out of touch with the state of Hungary during and immediately after the war. Lukács was deep into Communist machinations during the period of the coalitions government. One such maneuver was an alliance with the peasant-backed Populist Party, which also served to inject anti-Semitism into the post-Nazi political arena. We also find Lukács setting cultural policy, instituting a Communist literary hegemony involving the defamation of various Hungarian authors past and present as reactionary. Here we also find Lukács' hostility to pessimism, an occasion for his condemnation of the putative rottenness of the past. Numerous writers were silenced.One sees no indication here of any concession to a dark view of the world as a result of the Holocaust, something else which seems not to have affected Lukács very much. Lukács is known for his lifelong aversion to Hungarian backwardness. The author also claims that Lukács exaggerated this, distorting Hungarian history. The author singles out the uncompromising Sándor Márai as the tragic hero and victim of persecution.
La novelo "Fenikso" de Marjorie Boulton aperis en Belarto, n-ro 1, aprilo 1958, la novelaro Okuloj, kaj la progresiga lernolibro Paŝoj al plena posedo de William Auld.
Mi ĵus trovis retejon kie situas “Fenikso“ kaj Paŝoj. (Alklaku la retligojn supre.) Kun la novelo aperas vortaro kaj ekzercoj, el kiuj kelkaj koncernas la enhavon de la rakonto.
Sándor Szathmári verkis recenzon de Okuloj: “Nigraj Okuloj”. Pri la koncerna rakonto:
Nemalpli amare instruplena estas Fenikso. Sur malproksima planedo vivas la rjuiaoj, en konkordo, bonstato, feliĉo. Iam ili eltrovas la malamon kaj pro tio ili eksplodigas sian planedon. Kelkaj disflugantaj aerolitoj, partetoj de la planedo, flugas al la Tero kaj ĉi tien ili kunportas la ĝermojn de la vivo. Tiel komenciĝis la vivo sur la Tero . . .Atentu ankaŭ mian afiŝon Sándor Szathmári pri Marjorie Boulton.
Terura aŭguraĵo pri nia estonto. Akceptu mian kolegan, koregan kaj kuncivitanan manpremon en Pesimlando! En la lando de la bonintenca animkonstruemo!
Mi ĉi-momente konsentas kun Szathmári, ke "Vespera vizitanto" estas la kerno de la libro. Ĉu la nedifinita neologismo kazomedieca[n] (p. 88) devenas de la koncepto kazoo el Kazohinio? (Alia mistera neologismo estas ŝaŝakeca"[n].) Alia kerna, similtema novelo estas "Fenikso," en kiu ankaŭ rolas alimonda 'vizitanto' kaj temas pri detruita alia (kompare al la alinovela detruota nia) mondo (kie vivis la rjuiaoj). La tria esenca filozofia novelo kompreneble estas la reverko de la Eden-mito, Tiel, kiel ĝi ne okazis.Memoru ankaŭ, ke Paŝoj al plena posedo estas bonega lernolibro kaj legolibro por progresantaj studentoj.
Yesterday I received the latest issue of the journal Utopian Studies, which is a “special issue on the commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia." And what did I find but this article?
Czigányik, Zsolt. “The Hungarian Translations of Thomas More's Utopia," Utopian Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2016, pp. 323-332.
The article mentions Madách, Jókai, Karinthy, and Szathmári. Also mentioned are Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), Bessenyei, Babits, and Déry. Does it get any better than this?Note also in the bibliography:
Karinthy and Szathmári are discussed here.I have no way of knowing whether the former article merely replicates the latter.
Discusses György Bessenyei, Karinthy, and briefly, Szathmári. The bulk of the essay is devoted to Jókai’s A jövõ század regénye (The Novel of the Century to Come).I am encouraged now to pursue my objective on writing an article on Karinthy for Utopian Studies.
En afiŝo Karel Čapek & Esperanto (5) mi listigis la verkojn de Čapek kiuj situas ĉe la retejo de Don Harlow mem, ĉar la ceteraj retligoj ne plu estas validaj.
Jen troveblas tradukoj fare de J. Vondroušek kaj aliaj en DOC-formato:
Karel ČAPEK: Česká literatura v esperantu
Jen plua verko:
Laŭdo de ĵurnaloj [trad. Miroslav MALOVEC]
Jen tradukoj fare de J. Vondroušek kaj aliaj en HTML-formato el malaperinta retejo (archive.org):
Finfine, la lasta volumo de Omaĝe al Kálmán Kalocsay, la 8-a, estis enretigita, ankaŭ pluaj libroj, danke al István Mészáros. Jen la gamo de verkoj de kaj pri Kalocsay en la koncerna retejo, enlistigata laŭ mia propra ordo:
In Memoriam Dr. Kalocsay Kálmán (hungarlingva, kun postparolo & 'Postlasitaj verkoj' en Esperanto)
Omaĝe al Kálmán Kalocsay: el Abaújszántó ĝis la Esperanta Parnaso: pri la vivo kaj plena verkaro de D-ro Kálmán Kalocsay; komp. Ada Csiszár. Budapest: A. Csiszár / KAL-ĈI-Dokumentaro. Volumoj:
1. 1998. 143 p.Dissemitaj floroj: originalaj poemoj kaj tradukoj ekstervolumaj de Kálmán Kalocsay, enbukedigis Ada Csiszár. Budapest, 2005. 212 p.
2. Poeto de la Internacia Lingvo; 1998. 110 p.
3. Tradukinto de la Internacia Lingvo; 2000. 153 p.
4. La proza verkisto kaj tradukinto; 2000. 75 p.
5. La lingvisto kaj gramatikisto; 2001. 112 p.
6. La redaktoro: Literatura Mondo - Budapeŝta Skolo; 2001. 77 p.
7. Ses jardekoj en la Esperanta movado; 2002. 113 p.
8. El la vivanta klasikulo fariĝis senmorta klasikulo; 2002. 154 p.
Ezopa saĝo: sepdeksep fabloj verse reverkitaj de K. Kalocsay. Kopenhago: Koko, 1956.
La morto de la ĉielarko: elektitaj poemoj kaj artikoloj de Endre Ady; red. Vilmos Benczik; trad.: Imre Baranyai, Vilmos Benczik, Márton Fejes, Kálmán Kalocsay, Péter Rados, Ferenc Szilágyi. Budapest: Hungara Esperanto-Asocio, 1977. 87 p. (Libroserio 2; 2) Enkonduko de Kálmán Kalocsay (1962), p. 5-8.
Morgaŭ matene: dramo de Frigyes (Frederiko) Karinthy, tradukis Budapest: Hungara Esperanto Instituto, 1923.
Libero kaj amo: poemoj elektitaj, de Sándor Petőfi, trad. Kálmán Kalocsay. Budapest: Corvina, 1970.
Romaj Elegioj — La Taglibro de Goethe, tradukita de K. Kalocsay. Budapest: Literatura Mondo, 1932.
Eterna bukedo: poemoj el dudekdu lingvoj. Budapest: Literatura Mondo, 1931.
Tutmonda sonoro: poezia antologio en Esperanto tradukita el 30 lingvoj de K. Kalocsay. Budapest: Hungara Esperanto-Asocio, 1981. (Unua parto: antikva literaturo; Dua parto: moderna literaturo)
Streĉita kordo de Kálmán Kalocsay. Budapest: Literatura Mondo, 1931.
Rimportretoj: galerio de Esperantaj steloj, pentris K. Kalocsay. Budapest: Literatura Mondo, 1934.
Izolo: poemoj. (neaperinta 1-a eldono, 1939). Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, 1977.
Libro de Amo (inkl. de Sekretaj sonetoj) de Kálmán Kalocsay sub pseŭdonimoj, precipe Georgo Peterido Peneter; antaŭparolo de Arieh ben Guni. [La Laguna]: Byblos, 1969.Ekster tiu retejo jen alia verko traduka:
La plej ampleksa arkivo de literaturo en Esperanto en la Interreto lastatempe malaperis:
Literaturo en Esperanto
(Don Harlow)
Literature in Esperanto (Don Harlow) [ligoj al literaturaj revuoj, recenzoj, k.a. / links to literary magazines, reviews, et al]Mi esperas, ke iu(j) kontaktos la familion de Don Harlow, la konstruinto de ĉi tiu arkivo,ĝ cele al ĝia reaperigo.
This is my latest podcast, recorded in Buffalo, New York, May 7, 2016:
5/7/16 Frigyes Karinthy: the Hungarian Swift & his musical robots
Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938), known in our English-speaking world as the creator of the concept of "six degrees of separation" in 1929, was one of the great innovative geniuses of modern Hungarian literature, as a translator and original writer of literary parodies, poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays with a satirical bent and a penchant for fantasy. Out of over 20 volumes of original works in Hungarian only a small fraction have been published in English and/or Esperanto translation. (Karinthy himself was an Esperantist.) This year marks the centennial of Karinthy's 1916 utopian novella "Voyage to Faremido," in which Jonathan Swift's Gulliver undergoes his fifth fantastic voyage, this time to a realm of intelligent robots that speak or sing a language based on musical notes and from their vantage point of greater perfection present a counter-narrative of humanity's flawed evolution. I review Karinthy's life, work, ideas, and influence, with emphasis on "Voyage to Faremido" and its evident influence on Sándor Szathmári's "Voyage to Kazohinia."
To listen (56:55) click here; to download right-click here.
Postscript: I also mention Hungarian-Canadian poet and multimedia artist Robert Zend, who referred to Karinthy as his "spiritual father"--as did Szathmári. Also, I contrast Karinthy's approach to philosophy and literature with the views of Hungarian Marxist philosopher György Lukács, who never mentioned Karinthy as far as I can determine. I end with quotes from Karinthy's published "Letter to H. G. Wells" (July 1925) and from Mihály Babits on Karinthy's greatness.
“Vojaĝo al hungara literaturo, tereno nekonata” de Ralph Dumain, en Kontakto, n-ro 271 (2016: 1), p. 12-15. La redaktoro mencias R. Dumain & hungaran literaturon ĉe p. 3 & 8.Jen PDF-dosiero de mia eseo en bela formato laŭ apero en Kontakto.
Kiel povas okazi, ke ne hungara, sed transnacia esperantisto okupiĝas pri la temo? "Mi ne estas escepto: estas normale ke la studo pri la esperanta literaturo kondukas al Hungario, al certa Hungario. Tiurilate mi povas mencii interalie la laŭdindan laboron de Ralph Dumain en Usono" klarigas prof. Silfer.Temas pri prezentota teatraĵo kiu interligos la hungarajn verkistojn de Nyugat kaj la esperantistajn verkistojn de Literatura Mondo:
La premiero de "Invit' al Njugatesko" okazos la 2an de aŭgusto 2016 kadre de Arta Renkonto Transnacia en Esperanto (la unua ARTE) en Budapeŝto, sub la aŭspicio de la Esperanta Civito.Mi ja feliĉas, ke ĉi tia afero okazos. Miaflanke, mi esperas instigi konstatiĝon pri Karinthy ĉi-jare, okaze de la 100-a datreveno de apero de lia utopia novelego Vojaĝo al Faremido, apenaŭ konata en Usono kaj la anglalingvaj medioj. La 25-a de junio estas la naskiĝtago kaj de Karinthy kaj de mi.
Kiam valora Esperanto-tema retejo malaperas kaj ne reaperas, kelkokaze oni povas retrovi la perditajn retpaĝojn per "Wayback Machine" ĉe archive.org, sed ne ĉiuokaze.
La jena grava dokumentejo malaperis: Literaturo en nia Esperanto-mondo (literaturo.dk). Mi retrovis plurajn retpaĝojn el la fantom-interreto, sed la plej multaj malaperis. Skanado kaj preparado de verkoj kiujn mi fakte posedas estas temporaba afero.
Jen enhavtabelo de la malaperinta retejo: Literaturo en Esperanto el la tuta mondo.
Mi ĵus enretigis la jenan eseon:
Many Hungarian intellectuals of the early 20th century were influenced by psychoanalysis, Frigyes Karinthy included. He incorporated psychological themes in his serious and parodic works. Karinthy was a humorist, but the reviewer of this book seems to be lacking in that department. In the reviewer's "professional" estimation Karinthy is judged to have been even prior to the brain tumor "of an extremely psychopathic disposition with morbid hyperexcitability." This diagnosis is itself hilarious.
Review: A Journey Round my Skull by E. J. (1940), International Journal
of Psycho-Analysis, 21: 246-247.
This much advertised book is written in a sensational way about a sensational theme. It describes how the author, an Hungarian man of letters, gradually became aware of having a cerebral tumour, and his mental experiences during a long and dangerous operation without an anæsthetic. The experience is certainly remarkable and poignant enough to make a description of it by a really observant man one of great interest. In the present case, however, the patient appears already to have been of an extremely psychopathic disposition with morbid hyperexcitability. The mental experiences he describes, therefore, are only in part direct responses to the remarkable current situation, being in large part made up of fears, resentments, and blindnesses arising from characteristics of his own personality. These extraneous features impair the interest inherent in the description of the experiences, but on the other hand, they furnish material of interest for any psychologist whose attention is specially aroused by the story.
Harmony of Babel: profiles of famous polyglots of Europe
by Kató Lomb. translated from the Hungarian by Ádám Szegi, edited by Scott Alkir.
Berkeley; Kyoto: TESL-EJ Publications, 2013.
It should be no surprise that this is a Hungarian work. Hungary is not only linguistically isolated from Europe but for a large chunk of the 20th century it was the de facto cultural capital of the Esperanto movement.
Esperanto is mentioned by several interviewees. But see also especially the section "Does Latin have a present? Will Esperanto have a future?".
Contents:
The Sun Is Shining 7
Polyglots: Old and New 11
Cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti (1774 –1849) 19What Is the Good Language Learner Like? 69
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma (1784 –1842) 47
Rasmus Christian Rask (1787–1832) 51
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) 52
Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913) 57
Alexander Lenard (1910 –1972) 64
Introducing the participants 83Why Is Language Instruction Ailing in Hungary? 197
When can we say we know a language? 139
Which is the most important language skill:
grammar, vocabulary, or good pronunciation? 148
What method did you use to learn languages? 153
Has it ever happened to you that you started
learning a language, but could not cope with it? 162
What connection do you see between age and language learning?
Is your knowledge decreasing with age? 164
Does Latin have a present? Will Esperanto have a future? 169
Are there “easy” and “difficult,” “rich” and “poor,” “beautiful”
and “less beautiful” languages? 179
What is multilingualism good for? 188
Antaŭ ol mi lernis pri la persekutita turka poeto Nazim Hikmet anglalingve, mi eltrovis lin pere de Kálmán Kalocsay:
La mesaĝo de Nazim Hikmet de
Kálmán Kalocsay
Mi ĵus enretigis la jenan:
“La Ventoj de Lados” de
Nazim Hikmet (el la turka), trad. Aldo de’Giorgi
Koincide, mi ĵus trovis la jenan filmon kun subteksto (lingve neperfekta) en Esperanto:
Ironically, the links in this chain are very difficult to trace. There was a weekly radio program broadcast on 612 ABC Brisbane, Queensland, Australia titled "The Karinthy Connection". This apparently was the first broadcast:
612 ABC BrisbaneFinding all the programs in the series is not easy. One can only trace them backwards. The last program I was able to find was this, but without a backward link:
Drive with Matt Webber
3:00pm - 6:00pm
The Karinthy Connection
12 April 2011 , 6:18 PM by nicole gundi
In 1929, Hungarian writer and poet Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story called Chains.
Few people know of the book or the author but you would know the phrase he coined, “six degrees of separation”.
Welcome to The Karinthy Connection.
Drive with Matt WebberThis is the previous installment:
3:00pm - 6:00pm
The Karinthy Connection with Bern
13 December 2011 , 7:08 PM by Bern Young
The Karinthy Connection with Russell ThomasThis is the still previous installment, with the customary introduction. From here you can trace the series back to the beginning, episode by episode:
09 December 2011 , 1:10 PM by Bern Young
Drive with Matt WebberIf the series picked up again in 2012, I don't have the patience to hunt it down. I cannot find it in the current or recent programming of the station. There is or was a separate program on this station called "The Chain", but whether this was inspired in any way by the same idea I do not know.
3:00pm - 6:00pm
The Karinthy Connection with James Reyne
29 November 2011 , 7:23 PM by Bern Young
In 1929, Hungarian writer and poet Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story called "Chains". Few people know of the book or the author but you would know the phrase he coined, "six degrees of separation".
This is The Karinthy Connection.
Every Tuesday after 5.30pm, a music lover is invited onto Drive with Bernadette Young to continue the musical chain.
La nura enhavo de la koncerna artikolo en Vikipedio estas teksto el la Enciklopedio de Esperanto de 1934:
BODÓ Károly, hungaro, oficisto. Naskiĝis en 1903 en Monor. Esperantisto de 1921. Resp. redaktoro de Literatura Mondo dum ĝia dua periodo; noveltradukoj ankaŭ en Hungara Heroldo. Varbis por Esperanto kelkajn hungarajn verkistojn. Siajn unuajn tradukojn li kontribuis al Literatura Mondo (unua periodo), kaj en 1926 aperis liatraduke novelaro de F. Karinthy, Norda vento. Tiuj tradukoj jam pruvis neordinaran talenton, kiu brilis en lia traduko de la profunda Babits-romano, La Cikoni-kalifo, (1929) kaj trovis entuziasman laŭdon ĉe recenzistoj kaj la Akademio. En 1933 li amplekse kunlaboris al Hungara Antologio per noveltradukoj, kiuj neniel perfidas liajn antaŭajn sukcesojn. Kio karakterizas liajn laborojn, tio estas unue, trafgusta elekto de tradukindaj verkoj, kaj due, naturstila rekreo de la originalo, tiel ke ĝi ŝajnas nova originalo Esperanta. Ligate per literaturaj laboroj, la Budapestaj Esperantaj verkistoj ricevis ian similecon de stilo, kiu ne estas facile difinebla, kaj kies rekoneblo ne dependas simple de konata neologismo; ĉar tio ja ne estas trajto de la Bodó-verkoj. W. B. JOHNSON.Troveblas ankaŭ informoj en la anglalingva Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887-2007 de Geoffrey Sutton.
Igor Prokop
"TRAVEL TO FAREMIDO"
Acryl on Paper / 56x76cm
Aperis interrete:
Omaĝe al Kálmán Kalocsay: el Abaújszántó ĝis la Esperanta Parnaso: pri la vivo kaj plena verkaro de D-ro Kálmán Kalocsay; komp. Ada Csiszár. Budapest: A. Csiszár / KAL-ĈI-Dokumentaro. Volumo 4. La proza verkisto kaj tradukinto; 2000. 75 p.
Ĉi tiu volumo, kiel la antaŭaj, enhavas valoregan materialon. Jen la precipaj enhavoj:
Ĉapitro 9: La proza verkisto
9.1 Enkonduko
9.2 La eseisto Kalocsay (G. Miĥalkov) (p. 4-10)
9.3 Eseoj kaj artikoloj pri literaturo
9.4 La severa recenzanto (14-23)
9.5 Portretoj verkitaj de Kalocsay (24-28)
9.6 Eseoj kaj artikoloj pri la Esperanta poezio (29-30)
9.7 La observanto (31-36)
9.8 Artikoloj pri diversaj temoj (37-38)
9.9 Diino Hertha
Ĉapitro 10: La proza tradukinto
10.1 Enkonduko
10.2 La paĝio de l’ reĝino
10.3 Du kokcineloj; La montro
10.4 Morgaŭ matene (47-48)
10.5 Arthistorio I
10.6 Vivo de Arnaldo [Mussolini] (51-52)
10.7 Rozinjo
10.8 Prozaj tradukoj de Kalocsay (54-56)
10.9 El la fruaj prozaj tradukoj de Kalocsay: Mór Jókai: "Kiun el la naŭ" (57-61)
Ĉi tiu volumo eble estos la plej utila por eltrovi, kion pensis Kalocsay pri verkistoj esperantistaj (ekz. Ferenc Szilágyi, Lajos Tárkony) kaj neesperantistaj (ekz. Endre Ady).
Jen lastatempaj verkoj pri interlingvistiko & Esperantologio en la angla / ... both in English:
Towards a Linguistic Worldview for Artificial Languages by Ida Stria (Poznań 2015)
Language communication information: Special issue on interlinguistic and Esperanto Studies / Język komunikacja informacja: Numer specjalny Interlingwistykai Esperantologia #10 (Poznań 2015)
Sándor Szathmári pri Kálmán Kalocsay:
“Mi renkontis lin en ERA, kiu estis tiutempe la plej altnivela hejmo de niaj verkistoj. Li prelegis pri sia tiatempe pretiĝanta Dante-traduko pri la Infero. Tiam mi povis observi lian diablecan vizaĝon: svelta, longa nazo, oblikve suprenkurantaj brovoj. Perfekta Mephisto-masko, kiel iu saĝa, eleganta, malicridetanta diablo de la Infero! La efiko estis plena...”
(Paco 1966, n-ro 151, p. 10- 11)
I have the relevant Hungarian links mostly figured out.
Tragédia-átfordítások Karinthy Frigyes írásaiban (Szeged–Budapest, 2011)
is a compilation
of all the writings of Karinthy concerning Madách.
"Tizenhatodik Szín" & "Az emberke tragédiája" are separate
works in the the collection Így írtok ti (válogatás) [The way you write: selections]
Így írtok ti (1912) is the original publication of this work.
Concerning the relation between Így írtok ti (válogatás) and Így írtok ti (1912), it appears that editions subsequent to 1912 were either selections or amplifications. For example, there is a 2-volume 1979 edition comprising 1330 pages.
Madách was very important to Karinthy, as both would be to other Hungarian writers. Unfortunately, as far as I can determine, nothing by Karinthy on Madách has been translated into English or Esperanto.
La ideo fari el Literaturo la temon de la ĉefartikoloj en la nuna eldono venis per la artikolo ― unua kontribuaĵo al la revuo ― de Marc Gallargo el Francio, pri la pasintjara Nobelpremiito pri literaturo, Svetlana Aleksieviĉ. La ĉefartikoloj pritraktas ankaŭ aliajn verkistojn, sed koincide ― nur hungarojn. Krom la “Vojaĝo al Hungara Literaturo” de la usonano Ralph Dumain, venis kontribuo de Sarolta Bagó, hungarino, pri alia hungara verkisto. Aldonu al tio la konstantan rubrikon de la hungaro István Ertl. Certe la hungara literaturo meritas atenton.
I will write a version of this post in Esperanto, but as I am attempting to promote Karinthy in both English and Esperanto, I will begin with English. Actually, my last post was in Esperanto; this one specifically addresses the linkage between Karinthy and Madách, the latter's work concerned being The Tragedy of Man. It is not by chance that writers inspired by Karinthy were inspired also by Madách: examples are the Hungarian Esperantist writer Sándor Szathmári and the Hungarian-Canadian writer Robert Zend, both of whom referred to Karinthy as their "spiritual father."
Karinthy himself was invested in Madách, but the relevant works have not been translated into English or Esperanto. Hence I must cite the original Hungarian sources, and perhaps someone will take an interest in translating the relevant texts. I cannot read Hungarian, so I cannot address the content directly.
First, there is Karinthy's rewriting of the Tragedy. Here is a bibliographic reference:
Azemberke tragédiája Madách Imrike után Istenkéről, Ádámkáról és Luci Ferkóról. A versikéket írta Karinthy Frigyes. [Acsonkán fennmaradt kézirat kiegészítő részeit írta Karinthy Ferenc] Budapest: Új Idők, 1946. 42 pp.
The actual text can be found here: AZ EMBERKE TRAGÉDIÁJA ....
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MADÁCH IMRE
This comedy, The tragedy of little man was written by Karinthy Frigyes following Madách Imre's dramatic poem The tradegy of the Man. Story about God and creation of the world, Adam and Eve, and the falling angel Lucifer. Lucifer guides Adam and Eve through the ages from the ancient age through today and the future while looking for the sense of Life.Frigyes's son Ferenc, also an important writer, filled in the gaps in Frigyes's manuscript.
"Karinthy gyermekkorától rajongója volt Madách művének, ezért válhatott belőle »[...] talán minden idők legmélyebb Madách-értője«. Tizenhárom esztendősen írta naplójába a következő feljegyzést: »Madáchot isteni ihlet szállta meg, [...] hogy olyan igazán, olyan hatalmasan tud beszélni.«"I hope that one day we can see an account (with translations) of the Karinthy-Madách connection in English and Esperanto.
Cornis-Pope, Marcel; Neubauer, John; eds. History of the Literary
Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th
and 20th Centuries. 4 volumes. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 2004-2010.
Esperanto is mentioned in vols. 1-3. Vol. 4 mentions Sándor Szathmári.
Vol. 1 (2004): In the article "National operas in East-Central Europe" by John Neubauer (pp. 514 -523), there is a mention of an Esperanto translation (p. 515):
As a touching gesture of compensation, an enterprising Pole published in Paris an Esperanto translation of Włodzimierz Wolski’s libretto for Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera Halka.Bibliographic reference (p. 620):
Wolski, Włodzimierz. Halka. Esperanto trans. Antoni Grabowski. Paris: Hachette, 1912.Vol. 2 (2006): In the article "Ashkenaz or the Jewish Cultural Presence in East-Central Europe" by Seth L. Wolitz (pp. 314-331), on the Ashkenazi linguistic panorama (p. 328):
"It was not by accident that an Ashkenazic Jew, Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof, born in Bialystok and at first a Yiddishist, invented Esperanto (hope), a synthetic language designed to serve as an international expression of peace and thus to escape the nationalist baggage weighing any national tongue. Language was thus problematized by Jews around 1900, and the chosen medium indicated an ideological, political, and cultural commitment ranging from nationalist/religious/socialist confrontations around Hebrew and Yiddish, to an accommodationist use of the dominant language of the State, and further to the invention of a new tongue with an implied federalist agenda."In another article: "Monuments and the Literary Culture of Riga" by Irina Novikova (pp. 40-56), on Russian poet Vsevolod Cheshikhin (pp. 44-45):
"His interest in creating a universal language similar to Esperanto reflected his faith in the internationalism of poetic culture."From Wikipedia: Pan-Slavic language:
"Neposlava (Непослава) was created by Vsevolod Evgrafovich Cheshikhin (Всеволод Евграфович Чешихин) in 1915 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. In 1913 he created a system to construct zonal languages based on Esperanto affixes which are used with national roots and called it Nepo. Then in 1915 he created a nepo-language based on the Slavic lexicon - Neposlava ("Slavic Nepo"). He also used this system to construct other "new Esperantoes" based on Latin-Romance and Germanic languages."Vol 3: The Making and Remaking of Literary Institutions (2007): From the "General Introduction" by John Neubauer (with Inna Peleva on Bulgaria and Mihály Szegedy-Maszák on Kölcsey and Széchenyi) (pp. 1-38), on competing Hebrew and Yiddish revivals (p. 13):
"The rivalry was unique even on a purely linguistic level, for unlike Croatian and Serbian or Czech and Slovak, Hebrew and Yiddish represented two radically different languages and cultures, both of which lived embedded in other linguistic environments (Russian, Polish etc.) that had reached already more advanced stages in their own awakening. Esperanto was invented by an Ashkenazi Jew, Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof, as an attempt to overcome this Babel."Vol. 4: Types and Stereotypes (2010): Introduction to section on women authors (pp. 221-227) in a discussion of dystopias mentions Sándor Szathmári (p. 226):
The most famous East-Central European dystopia R.U.R. (see Veronika Ambros's article in this volume), in which the robots kill off all but one of their makers on a remote island. Since they arenot programmed to generate successors, the robots also seem doomed to extinction, but a love affair between a male and a female robot offers some hope for species survival. The ending resembles that of Imre Madách's Az ember tragédiája (Tragedy of Man; 1862), where Adam, having surveyed the history and the projected future of mankind, wants to commit suicide and thus terminate mankind but is prevented from it by Eve's announcement that she is pregnant. Such pessimistic projections of a future surely qualify as dystopias, even if they do not involve totalitarian visions of society. Dystopic in this sense are also two Hungarian novels, Sándor Szathmári's Kazohinia (1941), one of the most important novels written in Esperanto, and Ferenc Karinthy's Epepe (1971), published in English with considerable success in 2008.
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