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Miklós Szentkuthy

ミクローシュ・セントクーティ

Miklós Szentkuthy

Aliases: Miklós Pfisterer

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1908-06-02 （Budapest）
Died
1988-07-18 （Budapest） age 80
Nationality
Hungarian
Languages
Hungarian
Residence History
Budapest

Career

Occupations
writer
Active Years
1934-1988
Memberships
Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia
Influenced By
Jorge Luis Borges
Influenced
Péter Esterházy, Péter Nádas

Awards

Kossuth Prize
1988
Organization: Hungarian State
Result: 受賞
Baumgarten Prize
1948
Result: 受賞
Attila József Prize
1977
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Prae

1934 experimental novel

Panoramic description of European culture in the 1920s, fully modernist Hungarian novel with fragmentary structure.

European culturephilosophical reflections
Translations
  • Tim Wilkinson (English)

St. Orpheus Breviary

1939 historical novel cycle

Epic 10-volume cycle depicting 2000 years of European culture.

art and lifeholiness and eroticism
Translations
  • English, French, etc.

Marginalia on Casanova

1939 novel

Fragmentary notes on Casanova.

historical figures
Translations
  • Tim Wilkinson

Chapter on Love

1936 novel

Shift to baroque prose.

love
Translations
  • Erika Mihálycsa

Bibliography

  • Prae
  • Towards the One and Only Metaphor
  • St. Orpheus Breviary
  • Chapter on Love

Translations by Author

  • James Joyce Ulysses
  • Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

Translations of Works

  • English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish

Style & Themes

Literary Style
fragmentary structureaudacious metaphorsbaroque proseencyclopedic
Recurring Motifs
conflict between art and lifeholiness and eroticismfictionalized biographies of historical figures

Legacy

One of the major innovative Hungarian novelists of the 20th century, forerunner of postmodernism.

Museums

  • Petőfi Literary Museum Budapest

Archives

  • Petőfi Literary Museum (manuscripts, diary)

In Popular Culture

  • Influenced contemporary authors like Péter Esterházy and Péter Nádas

Trivia

  • Born as Miklós Pfisterer
  • Wrote an extensive diary of approx. 80–100,000 pages
  • Translated Joyce's Ulysses into Hungarian