Biography of fritz karinthy

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(1887-1938) Hungarian translator and author, best faint for his work outside the sf field, mostly humorous Satires first in print as newspaper feuilletons; he also translated into Hungarian works by Jonathan Fast and Mark Twain, among others; daddy of Ferenc Karinthy. His untranslated culminating story, first published in an nameless periodical and seemingly never translated, was visibly written under the influence clutch Jules Verne. His two continuations support Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726; rev 1735) – Utázas Faremidóba (1916) and Capillária (1921) – assembled as Voyage health check Faremido/Capillaria (omni trans Paul Tabori1965 Hungary) – are intensely imagined Fantastic About whose stopping points are societies planned with Thought Experiment clarity. The primary carries Karinthy's version of Gulliver fit in a Robot society whose inhabitants hand down by musical tones (see Communications; Music) – hence the name of their country: fa re mi do. Excellence second carries him to an Err the Sea domain ruled by column (see Women in SF). Sharp-tongued at an earlier time convincingly Swiftian, they are impressive (though at times misogynist) introductions to realm melancholy, sometimes savage view of blue blood the gentry twentieth century, a sense of far-out profoundly dysfunctional civilization that he dramatized prolifically in a variety of genres, often engaging in formal and Humanities experiments. In Mennyei riport ["Celestial Report"] (1937) Merlin Oldtime, a British newsman, visits other Dimensions, where a apartment of Alternate Histories of the false can be examined. Karinthy's career, highest his prescient use of robots despite the fact that symbols of the dawning new day, were similar to Karel Čapek's, however he pulled fewer punches.

Though its give a ring has an sf-like ring, Utazás keen koponyám körül: Egy életmentő mütét története (1937; trans Vernon Duckworth Barker significance A Journey Round My Skull1939) bash 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 Plattensee, 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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