Antal Szerb

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antal Szerb (around 1930)

Antal Szerb [ ˈɒntɒl sɛrb ] (born May 1, 1901 in Budapest , † January 27, 1945 in Balf ) was a Hungarian writer . He also wrote under the pen name AH Redcliff .

Life

The son of a Jewish businessman who converted to Catholicism studied classical and modern philology at the University of Graz from 1919 and Hungarian , German and English studies in Budapest from 1920 . He received his doctorate in 1924 on Ferenc Kölcsey . From 1924 to 1929 he lived on study trips to Italy and France , and in 1930 to London . He worked as a teacher for Hungarian and English because he was denied a university career because of his Jewish descent. He was only able to do his habilitation at the University of Szeged in 1937 and hold lectures there until 1943, before he was drafted into the labor service and had to unload barges in Budapest.

In 1944 he and other Jews from Budapest were deported westwards to build the south-east wall and killed by guards on January 27, 1945 in the Balf camp in western Hungary.

In 1934 he published his Hungarian literary history , which is still read today , and in 1938 his novel theory Die Suche nach dem Wunder. Looking around and problematic in modern novel literature (under the Germanized name Anton Szerb). In 1941 his literary history of the world was published.

Works

In the original language

  • Az angol irodalom kistükre , 1929 (English literature)
  • Cynthia , 1932
  • A magyar irodalom története , 1934 (History of Hungarian Literature)
  • A Pendragon legenda , 1934
  • Szerelem a palackban , 1935 (love in a bottle, short stories)
  • Budapesti útikalauz marslakók számára , 1935 ( Budapest for Martians )
  • Utas és holdvilág , 1937
    • translated as: journey in the moonlight ; 1974 in Germany, initially under the title The Wanderer and the Moon
  • The Search for the Miracle: Looking Around and Problems in Modern Fiction , Amsterdam; Leipzig: Pantheon, 1938
  • A világirodalom története , 1941 (History of World Literature)
  • Hetedik Olivér , 1943 ( Oliver VII , published under the pseudonym AH Redcliff)
  • A királyné nyaklánca , 1943 ( The Queen's Necklace )
  • Száz vers , 1943/1944 (100 poems)

German editions

  • The search for the miracle. A look around and problems in modern fiction , Pantheon, Amsterdam and Leipzig 1938
  • Marie Antoinette or The Unpaid Guilt , translated by Alexander Lenard, Goverts, Stuttgart 1966; New edition as The Queen's Collar , translated by Alexander Lenard, revised by Ernö and Renate Zeltner, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-13365-1
  • The Pendragon legend , translated by Henriette Schade-Engl, Corvina, Budapest 1966; New translation Die Pendragon-Legende , translated by Susanna Großmann-Vendrey, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24425-9 (also published in 2005/2005 as a sequel in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ); New edition with an afterword by György Poszler, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-13712-6
  • Ex. Comedy in three acts , translated by Marian von Keresztury, Molden, Vienna 1967
  • Oliver VII. , Translated by Ita Szent-Iványi, illustrations by Rudolf Peschel, Eulenspiegel, Berlin (East) 1972; Unabridged and revised new edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-13474-3
  • The Wanderer and the Moon , translated by Irene Kolbe, Corvina, Budapest 1975; New translation as Journey in the Moonlight , novel, translated by Christina Viragh, with an afterword by Péter Esterházy , Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-24370-8
  • Hungarian Literary History , 2 volumes, Franciscan Fathers, Youngstown / Ohio 1975
  • In the library , short stories, selected and edited by György Poszler, translated by Timea Tankó , Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-24562-3
  • Thoughts in the library. Essays on the literatures of Europe , translated by András Horn , Schwabe, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-7965-2715-9
  • History of world literature , translated by András Horn, Schwabe, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-7965-3370-9

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dream and Adaptation… (Review of the novel “Reise im Mondlicht” by Antal Szerb on lyrikwelt.de) ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
personal data
SURNAME Szerb, Antal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redcliff, AH (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1945
Place of death Balf