Zsigmond Móricz

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József Rippl-Rónai , portrait of Móricz Zsigmond (1923)

Zsigmond Móricz (born July 2, 1879 in Tiszacsécse , † September 4, 1942 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian writer .

Life

Zsigmond Móricz was born as the first of nine children to a poor small farmer and a pastor's daughter (Reformed Church). As a child, he learned about rural poverty. He developed the pursuit of culture early on. His father was only able to secure a good education for him at great sacrifice. He came to the College of Debrecen as a student . As a student he began several higher education courses (theology and law) that he did not complete. He ended up working as a journalist in Budapest. On behalf of the Kisfaludy Society , he collected folk songs in Szatmár County for three summers and had the opportunity to study the conditions in the Hungarian village, especially the life of the poor rural population. The story “ Sieben Kreuzer ”, printed in the magazine Nyugat in 1908, enabled him to enter the literary world of his time. The realism with which Móricz depicts the life of the poor farm workers in this story was something incredibly new, because the Hungarian literature of the time only knew an idealized image of the peasant.

During the First World War he became a war correspondent , with an increasingly critical attitude towards the war he wrote reports about the soldiers at the front and their longing for peace. In the revolution of 1918 and the Soviet republic that followed in 1919 , he saw progress and expected a land reform that would give the poor peasants land. He wrote reports on the emerging production cooperatives. In the course of the counter-revolution he was imprisoned for some time.

In the twenties and thirties, he published a number of novels and many short stories as a recognized writer. He also worked on forgotten old Hungarian literature and published it again. He traveled the country collecting folk songs . In 1939 he took over as editor of the literary magazine " Kelet Népe " (People of the East), which dealt particularly with the literature of the peasants. He died in 1942.

Works

  • Gold in the kote. A Hungarian farmer's novel. (AdUngar. By A.Schwartz). Bln., Rowohlt 1921
  • Behind God's Back, novel, Ernst Rowohlt Berlin 1922
  • The torch. From the Hungarian. v. Heinrich Horvat, Berlin Rowohlt 1929
  • Transylvania. Historical trilogy of novels. From the Hungarian by Käthe Gaspar, Zsolnay Verlag Berlin 1936
  • Get full once: two stories. - Leipzig: Reclam, [1952]. - (Reclams Universal Library; 7916).
  • The man with the cock feathers. Stories, set up in 1954
  • Lion in a Cage, Im Bertelsmann Lesering, 1961
  • Poor people, Corvina Verlag, Budapest 1961
  • Mischi and the College of Translation Mirza Schüching, Corvina Verlag, Budapest, 1962
  • Gentlemen's feast; 3 little novels. Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1965
  • Seven cruiser tales. Published by Vera Thieß Leipzig Insel-Verlag in 1967
  • On a sultry summer day. Novel. Berlin / Budapest, Verlag der Nation / Corvina Verlag, 1968
  • The Great Prince, Verlag der Nation Berlin 1973
  • Shadow of the Sun, Verlag der Nation Berlin 1974
  • The happy person. Novel. Berlin and Weimar, Aufbau-Verlag, 1976
  • Zaubergarten, Berlin: Verlag der Nation, 1977
  • Sky bird. Stories. Leipzig. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. 1979.
  • The cattle with the letter of nobility, Berlin Verlag der Nation 1979
  • Moricz, Zsigmond / Lacza, Marta (Ill.): The pipe of the silver king. Tricky janko. (Grandmother's * fairy tale book). 1992
  • Mr. Bovary, Roman, Corvina, Budapest 1999 (in German)
  • Relatives, Roman, Corvina, Budapest 1999 (in German)

Film adaptations

  • 1948: Vilma scandal ( Forró mezők ) - based on the novel "Hot Fields"
  • 1950: A short break for the rich ( Úri muri )
  • 1960: The Free Student ( Legy jo mindhalálig )
  • 1965: The men in Death Hill; also: The Hopeless ( Szegénylegények )
  • 1976: The No Man's Child ( Arvácska )
  • 1978: I cannot live without music ( Nem elhetek muzsikaszó nelkül )

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