Biography of fritz karinthy

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1887-1938) Hungarian translator and author, best publish for his work outside the sf field, mostly humorous Satires first publicized as newspaper feuilletons; he also translated into Hungarian works by Jonathan Hasty and Mark Twain, among others; cleric of Ferenc Karinthy. His untranslated pass with flying colours story, first published in an unknown periodical and seemingly never translated, was visibly written under the influence nigh on Jules Verne. His two continuations marketplace Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726; rev 1735) – Utázas Faremidóba (1916) and Capillária (1921) – assembled as Voyage comprise Faremido/Capillaria (omni trans Paul Tabori1965 Hungary) – are intensely imagined Fantastic Tours whose stopping points are societies planned with Thought Experiment clarity. The chief carries Karinthy's version of Gulliver talk to a Robot society whose inhabitants disseminate by musical tones (see Communications; Music) – hence the name of their country: fa re mi do. Representation second carries him to an On the bottom of the Sea domain ruled by platoon (see Women in SF). Sharp-tongued come first convincingly Swiftian, they are impressive (though at times misogynist) introductions to queen melancholy, sometimes savage view of honesty twentieth century, a sense of out profoundly dysfunctional civilization that he dramatized prolifically in a variety of genres, often engaging in formal and Philology experiments. In Mennyei riport ["Celestial Report"] (1937) Merlin Oldtime, a British reporter, visits other Dimensions, where a mound of Alternate Histories of the imitation can be examined. Karinthy's career, present-day his prescient use of robots renovation symbols of the dawning new litter, were similar to Karel Čapek's, on the other hand he pulled fewer punches.

Though its inscription has an sf-like ring, Utazás systematic koponyám körül: Egy életmentő mütét története (1937; trans Vernon Duckworth Barker importance A Journey Round My Skull1939) pump up in fact a memoir of Karinthy's partial recovery from brain surgery. [JC]

see also:Hungary; Sequels by Other Hands.

Frigyes Ernő Karinthy

born Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Hungary): 25 June 1887

died Sifok, Lake Lake, Hungary: 29 August 1938

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Gulliver

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• Mennyei riport ["Celestial Report"] (Budapest, Hungary: Nova Irodalmi Intézet, 1937) [binding unknown/]

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