Milán Füst

Bust of Milán Füst in the City Park in Budapest

Milán Füst (born July 17, 1888 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; died July 26, 1967 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer and professor of aesthetics.

Life

Füst, who studied law until 1912 and worked temporarily as a teacher, published his first poems in 1909 in the magazine Nyugat . Initially appeared through poetry ( Változtatnod nem lehet , 1913), Füst was also a playwright ( Boldogtalanok , 1914). However, his plays were only performed late, shortly before his death, such as his drama Negyedik Henrik Király (King Henry IV), which was written in 1940 and was first seen in the Hungarian capital in 1964.

His most successful literary work was the novel The story of my wife (A feleségem története "), translated into numerous languages , which Füst drafted over 40,000 pages of manuscript over a period of seven years and completed in 1942. In 1967, the novel Füst brought the nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948 Füst was one of the first to receive the Kossuth Prize .

For many years Füst was also a professor of aesthetics in Budapest.

Works

• The unfortunate ones , 1914
• Advent , 1923
• Smiling faces , 1923
• King Henry IV , 1940
• Vision and emotion in art , 1948
• The story of my wife ( A feleségem története ), German 1962; additional edition: Frankfurt, M.: Eichborn 2007, Die Andere Bibliothek series , ISBN 978-3-8218-6202-6
• Autumn gloom , 1974

Web links

Commons : Milán Füst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Füst Milán - CV at SZTE Móra Ferenc Kollégium ( Hungarian )
• Literature by and about Milán Füst in the catalog of the German National Library