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Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936)

Autor(a) de Skylark

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Obras por Dezső Kosztolányi

Skylark (1923) 607 exemplares
Kornél Esti (1981) 266 exemplares
Anna la dulce (1926) 222 exemplares
Darker Muses (1922) 73 exemplares
Le Traducteur cleptomane (1900) 56 exemplares
De gouden vlieger (1925) 42 exemplares
Nyelv és lélek (1990) 7 exemplares
Schachmatt (1986) 5 exemplares
April fool (1999) 4 exemplares
Idegen költők (1988) 4 exemplares
Novellák (1977) 4 exemplares
A léggömb elrepül (1981) 3 exemplares
Pacsirta - Esti Kornél (2007) 3 exemplares
Une famille de menteurs (2016) 3 exemplares
Le trompettiste tchèque (2015) 3 exemplares
Karinthy Frigyesről (1988) 3 exemplares
Zsivajgó természet (1994) 3 exemplares
Boldogság (1978) 3 exemplares
Hét kövér esztendő (1981) 3 exemplares
Ércnél maradóbb (1975) 2 exemplares
Tarlakuşu (2019) 2 exemplares
Kala - Kosztolyi (2005) 2 exemplares
Álom és ólom 2 exemplares
Pacsirta * Édes Anna (1999) 2 exemplares
Válogatott versek (2003) 2 exemplares
Portraits (2013) 2 exemplares
Sötét bujócska 2 exemplares
Látjátok, feleim (1976) 2 exemplares
Patália (1976) 2 exemplares
Kosztolányi Dezső versei (2005) 2 exemplares
Bölcsőtől a koporsóig (1987) 2 exemplares
Pacsirta ; Aranysárkány (1989) 2 exemplares
Venise (2017) 2 exemplares
Leeuwerik 1 exemplar
Tüzes cipőben [memoár] (2004) 1 exemplar
Ševa 1 exemplar
Drame au vestiaire (1993) 1 exemplar
Esti Kornél I-Ii. 1 exemplar
Verses drámafordítások (1982) 1 exemplar
Aranysárkány (2007) 1 exemplar
Európai képeskönyv (1979) 1 exemplar
Złoty latawiec 1 exemplar
Szhi est (1978) 1 exemplar
Hazugság (1985) 1 exemplar
Öcsem (1914-1915) 1 exemplar
2005 1 exemplar
Modern költők 1 exemplar
Dom Kłamczuchów 1 exemplar
Aranysárkány 1 exemplar
Kínai kancsó 1 exemplar
Cuentos psicoanalíticos (2003) 1 exemplar
Gecekusu Kornelius (2012) 1 exemplar
Füst 1 exemplar
Hattyú 1 exemplar
ÁBÉCÉ 1 exemplar
Levelek- Naplók (1996) 1 exemplar
Én, te, ő 1 exemplar
Alakok 1 exemplar
Az élet primadonnái (1997) 1 exemplar
Lángelmék 1 exemplar

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Nem vagyok Kosztolányi barátja. A versei talán csak nem az én ízlésemhez passzolók, a műfordításai viszont… írtam már máshol is, és tudom én, hogy akkor más volt a szokás, még az elvárás is, sokkal inkább a saját stílusukra formálhatták az eredetiket (azért hála az égnek, volt, aki ellen tudott állni ennek), amit könnyű elnézni egy Karinthy-féle Micimackónak, de megbocsáthatatlan, amikor K. Dezső Blake elementáris erejű, vad tigriséből szelíd, szépséges, pamutgombolyaggal játszó kiscicát csinál. Vagy Évike Aliz kalandjaiból kihagyja a poénokat.

Ezután sem leszek a barátja, de azért ez nem rossz, egyáltalán. Azt hiszem, ha gimis koromban olvasom, maradéktalanul tetszett volna. Így, a fentiek ismeretében passzív-agresszív nekem ajándékozva vannak fenntartásaim (ugyanitt: kedves mind, ne csináljunk ebből rendszert, még ha el is ismerem, hogy mindkét esetben érdemes volt legyőzni az ellenállásom :P).

Az elején rögtön kellemes meglepetést okozott a „vastag-zöld szójáték” kifejezés, ha picit talán sok is volt előtte a plusz két hasonló. Aztán majdnem belefulladtam a lombcukrozásba, és később is azért vártam vonatútja végét, nehogy még egyszer nekiálljon leírni az éjszakát. Ugyanakkor a későbbi, rövid fejezetekben kifejezetten szórakoztató, kerek, eredeti sztorikat olvashattam, csattanóstul, mindenestül (a bolgár kalauz, a pesti éjszakában ökörködő barátok, az elegáns szálloda, a különböző módokon terhére lévő barátok, megmentők és megmentettek). Bírtam a humorát, különösen, amikor beszólt a műfordítóra, illetve a lírai költőkre… khm, khm… De tényleg, vicces fiú volt, na. Az alvó elnökös poént mondjuk túlnyújtotta szerintem, azt marhára untam egy idő után, de a könyv végén elégedetten nyugtáztam, hogy ezt is letudtam a főváros tömegközlekedési kultúrája nem sokat fejlődött az elmúlt 85 évben, a záró fejezet abszolút aktuális maradt. Jó, hát az emberek nem változtak, és azért ezeket nagyon eltalálta. Ó, és nem is tudom, mikor láttam utoljára ilyen jó befejezést.
… (mais)
 
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blueisthenewpink | 12 outras críticas | Jan 3, 2024 |
This compact, subtly playful novel by Hungarian critic and poet Dezső Kosztolányi (1885-1936) chronicles the uneventful lives of the Vajkay family, who reside in a parochial outpost called Sárszeg, somewhere within the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. We meet Akos Vajkay and his wife (the narrator usually refers to them as Mother and Father) as the 19th Century is winding down. It’s September 1, and they are packing because their daughter, nicknamed Skylark (we never learn her real name), is leaving for a week to visit her aunt and uncle in Tarkö, on the Hungarian plain. Akos is retired and spends his days researching heraldry and lineages. His wife keeps house. But it seems the presiding force within the Vajkay home is Skylark, who, at thirty-five, unattached with no prospects, well versed in household chores, is both a hopeless burden and a constant focus of doting attention for her parents. Once Skylark has left them standing on the station platform, “waving their little handkerchiefs” as her train recedes from view, the parents are bereft. Skylark too, on board the train, unaccustomed to being on her own without distractions, succumbs to the loneliness and despair that constantly plagues her. But it turns out all is not lost. In their daughter’s absence, Akos and his wife are free to do as they please. They dine out at the best restaurant in town. They attend the theatre. Akos reconnects with a jolly crowd of revelers called the Panthers, with whom he used to socialize but withdrew from after marrying and becoming a father. His wife also enjoys the week emancipated from the daughter’s sobering presence, neglecting the housework, eating chocolate, and playing the piano, which we are told she hasn’t touched in many years. Akos had renounced alcohol and gambling but, encouraged by his friends to throw off the shackles of sobriety, he again takes up the bottle and the cards, and in the small hours of Friday morning returns home uproariously drunk with his winnings overflowing his pockets. It is then, while in the throes of inebriation, that Akos voices to his wife the grim truth of which they are painfully aware but have avoided facing: that their daughter is irredeemably ugly and will never find a husband. For Skylark too, after a good cry on the train, the week is pleasing. Every day is full. In a letter sent while on holiday she regales her parents with a litany of the activities she and her relatives have got up to. Then the week is over. Skylark returns home. Her parents are genuinely ecstatic and relieved to have her back where she belongs, safe in the nest. Life for the Vajkay family returns to normal. It is perhaps a cloistered, unremarkable life, buttoned-down and filled with familiar ritual, in some respects disappointing, but comfortable. The ironies here are subtle, the humour subdued. Kosztolányi never mocks his characters, who take their amusements where they can find them. He simply lets them be. In Skylark, Kosztolányi is sketching a way of life that is neither tragic nor triumphant and in so doing has written a moving and memorable novel.… (mais)
 
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icolford | 24 outras críticas | Sep 25, 2023 |
Here's what I wrote in 2011 about this read: "Third by this author in two months; think I'm catching on now. Like, Kornel Esti stories reflects Hungary both pre and post WWI; but back to Anna . . . Hungarian bourgeoise trying to cope in a rapidly changing, post WWI state and culture drive a servant to murder. We don't really understand Anna too well (who saw that murder coming?!), but society was completely quick to convict her in the court of public opinion and then formally jail her. The doctor saw her as a fellow human and the crime of her employers to de-humanize her. And then there's the story of the worthless nehpew Janczi (of course did see his abuse of Anna coming from the long way off!)"… (mais)
 
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MGADMJK | 4 outras críticas | Aug 25, 2023 |
This is what I wrote in 2011 about this read: 'This is a really, really good book. Written in the 1920's, about a family of three in Hungary in just before the turn of the century. Memorable, human characters; how sad they are. What a twist to have the parents party while the child is away, and how interesting to have comedy and farce intertwined with daily, human suffering."
 
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MGADMJK | 24 outras críticas | Aug 25, 2023 |

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Obras
115
Also by
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Membros
1,492
Popularidade
#17,224
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
49
ISBN
235
Línguas
17
Marcado como favorito
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