Authoring, Barbering & Other Occupations by Lajos Nagy / Selected Short Stories / Corvina Books 2002 / Translated by Albert Tezla / Paperback / English Edition of Írás, hajnyírás

Paperback 2002

ISBN: 9789631351323  / 978-9631351323

ISBN-10: 9631351327

PAGES: 270

PUBLISHER: Corvina

LANGUAGE: English

English Description:

LAJOS NAGY (1883-1954)

Living in poverty as a child in semi-feudal Hungary, when began to write, Lajos Nagy turned his attention to the social injustices and provincialism of his rural surroundings. His first story appeared in a newspaper in 1907 and by the following year he was on the staff of the periodical Nyugat (West) where his realistic descriptions and naturalistic prose found an attentive audience. His first novel, Vadember (The Wild man, 1926), shows his puritanical handling of controversial themes at its full maturity. For his 10 novels and a collection of short stories, La was awarded the prestigeous Kossuth Prize.

Authoring, Barbering, and Other Occupations is a selection of short stories that with their simple plots and shrewd observations, on the workings of the individual’s soul tell compelling tales of human tragedies, conflicts and relationships in a haunting way. The rich confront the poor, the student the teacher, the peasant the gendarme — whatever the subject, the subject remains the same — an outcry for human dignity in a blighted world.