Sandor Gergei ( Hungarian Gergely Sándor , real name and surname is Alexander Grünbaum , Hungarian Grünbaum Sándor ; February 2, 1896 , Deutschchreuz , Austria-Hungary - June 14, 1966 , Budapest , Hungary ) - Hungarian writer , journalist , editor , public figure. Laureate of the Kossuth Prize (1949, 1956).
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Biography
Jewish descent. After leaving school, he spent some time in journalism. Member of World War I since 1915. Fighting on the Western Front was wounded, blinded. After several operations, in 1920 he restored his vision.
In 1923 he edited the newspaper Kékmadár. In 1924 * 1925, he directed the Miskolc newsletter, but was fired due to radical views.
He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary .
Since 1926 - a member of the illegal Hungarian Communist Party . In 1929, expelled from the ranks of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary .
In 1931 he emigrated to the USSR. In 1931-1945 he lived in the USSR, where he edited the magazine "Sarló és Kalapács" (Sword and hammer), from 1937 he was editor of the magazine Új Hang. In 1945 he returned to Hungary. From 1945 to 1951 he was president of the Free Writers Union of Hungary.
Creativity
In 1922 he published a collection of short stories "Desert". In the novels “The World” (1924, Russian translation: “The Night Over Budapest”, 1937), “The Amazing Life of Fitzko Ahrem” (1925), the life of the urban lower classes is depicted with elements of naturalism . The novels Drevotochets (1929, Russian translation, 1933), Something is Preparing (1931, Russian translation, 1932) tell of the underground work of the Communists.
The author of the historical trilogy about the Hungarian peasant war “Györ Doge" (t. 1-3, 1936-54; Russian transl., Vol. 1 called "1514", 1937) and the novel "The drum rattles" (1934, Russian transl. 1936) about peasant unrest in Khortist Hungary. In 1952 he published the novel "Hot Summer" about a new Hungarian village. In the novel The Thorny Way (1955, Russian translation, 1959), G. spoke about the intellectual’s path to the labor movement.
Selected Bibliography
- Sivatag (Narrative, 1922)
- Béke (Roman, 1924)
- Achrem Fickó csudálatos élete (Roman, 1925)
- Hidat vernek (Roman, 1927)
- Játszik az utca (Roman, 1927)
- Szú (Roman, 1929)
- A Dózsa féle parasztforradalom története (historical study, 1929)
- Embervásár (Roman, 1930)
- Munkáskultúra (study, 1930)
- Valami készül (Roman, 1931)
- Pereg a dob (Roman, 1934)
- Úriszék (1936)
- Vitézek és hősök (Novella, 1937)
- Der Namenlose (1937)
- A nagy tábor (1939)
- Vitézek és hősök (play, 1940)
- Bor (Story, 1941)
- Uj falu (1943)
- A dehkánok földjén (1943)
- Tüzes trónus (1945)
- Szép úr hétköznapjai (Narrative, 1946)
- Az utolsó felvonás (Roman, 1947)
- Gyanú (Short Story, 1948)
- Épül az új világ (Article, 1949)
- Hív az erdő (Narrative, 1949)
- Farkasok (1950)
- Falusi jelentés (1951)
- Forró nyár (Roman, 1952)
- Szakadék szélén (Short Story, 1952)
- Találkozó (Short Story, 1952)
- Felszáradnak a könnyek (Roman, 1954)
- Rögös út I.-II. (Roman, 1955-1956)
- Őszi reggel (1957)
- A Nagy Föld (1957)
- Emberek között (1958)
- Tiltott utak (novel, 1961)
- Felsőbb osztályba léphet (Roman, 1964)
- Hallgatás közben (1965)
- Dózsa György I-II-III. (Trilogy, 1966)
- Valami készül - Szú - Embervásár (1967)
- Emberek között I — II. (Drama, 1968)
- Drámák (bevezető (1971)
- Hittel és indulattal (collection of articles, 1975)
Notes
Literature
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1969-1978.
- Big Encyclopedic Dictionary. 2000.
- Encyclopedic Dictionary. 2009.
Links
- Gergely Sándor (Hungarian)