Tamás Kóbor
1867–1942
Biography
Tamás Kóbor was a Hungarian writer and journalist who spent his working life in Budapest, where he died in 1942. He was born in 1867 in Pozsony, the city known today as Bratislava, and he was of Jewish descent. He was born Adolf Bermann and went by that name until 1905, after which he used the name Kóbor by which he is remembered.
He wrote novels and short stories and also worked as a journalist. His fiction is mostly about the people of the city: their marriages, their small misfortunes and the everyday comedy of their lives.
On this site he is represented by Cognac-idillek: novellák. Its opening section, the Cognac Idylls, is ten linked pieces narrated by a man who cannot sleep and lies awake turning over his thoughts, and the book goes on to stories and brief tales of city life. No English-language article was found for him, so this biography rests on the Hungarian reference article and on the book itself; check the details there.
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Books
Cognac-idillek: novellák
by Tamás Kóbor
Short fiction by the Budapest novelist and journalist Tamás Kóbor. It opens with the Cognac Idylls, ten linked pieces told by a sleepless narrator, and goes on to stories and brief tales of city people, their marriages and their small misfortunes.
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.