Dezső Kosztolányi
1885–1936
Biography
Dezső Kosztolányi was a Hungarian poet, novelist, journalist, translator and critic, and a speaker of Esperanto. He was born in Szabadka, today Subotica in Serbia, on 29 March 1885, and died in Budapest on 3 November 1936. He was one of the outstanding stylists of the first generation of writers around the Budapest review Nyugat.
He wrote in nearly every literary form, from verse and essays to plays and novels. His manner drew on French symbolism, impressionism, expressionism and psychological realism, and he built a style that is recognisably his own. Some critics regard him as the father of futurism in Hungarian literature.
The site holds Béla, a buta, a volume of new stories that the Hungarian bibliography dates to 1920 and lists as published in Budapest by Athenaeum. It is a direct way into his short fiction, a part of his work that is easy to overlook beside his novels.
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Books
Béla, a buta
by Dezső Kosztolányi
Ten stories by Dezső Kosztolányi, among them the title story of a slow-witted boy, a toothache told in ten short scenes, a glass eye and a father. They are precise, quiet studies of ordinary people and the odd turns in their lives.
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.