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Be Faithful Unto Death (Central European Classics) (Central European Classics) Paperback - 1996

by Zsigmond Moricz


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Written by Hungary's greatest modern novelist, Be Faithful Unto Death is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket. The torments brought on by this incident which he is forced to undergo, and from which he grows, are superbly described, as Stephen Vizinczey's new translation unleashes the full power of Mricz's prose. First published in 1921, the novel is brimming with vivid detail from the provincial life that Mricz knew so well, and shot through with a sense of the tragic fate of a newly truncated Hungary. But ultimately it is the universal quality of the experience captured here, and the author's uncanny ability to rediscover for the reader precisely what it feels like to be that child, which makes this portrait of the artist as a young boy not merely a Hungarian, but an international classic.

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Be Faithful Unto Death is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old-established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket. The torments through which he goes - and grows - are superbly described, and Stephen Vizinczey's new translation unleashes the full power of Moricz's prose. First published in 1921, the novel is brimming with vivid detail from the provincial life that Moricz knew so well, and shot through with a sense of the tragic fate of a newly truncated Hungary. Yet the quality of the experience captured here is universal. The author's uncanny ability to rediscover for us precisely what it feels like to be that child makes this portrait of the artist as a young boy not merely a Hungarian but a European classic.

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  • Title Be Faithful Unto Death (Central European Classics) (Central European Classics)
  • Author Zsigmond Moricz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 332
  • Publisher A Central European University Press Book, Hungary
  • Date May 15, 1996
  • ISBN 9781858660608

About the author

Zsigmond Mricz (1879-1942) wrote poems, essays, and short stories as well as novels, and was one of the group of writers associated with the journal Nyugat (West). He is the author of The Torch and Seven Pennies, a collection of short stories.
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