Burokban születtem - Kifelé a burokból
I was born with a caul - Getting out of the caul
Author(s): Anna Borgos, Harmos Ilona Kosztolányi DezsőnéSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Vörösmarty Társaság
Keywords: autobiography; childhood and youth; awakening of sensuality; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Hungarian literature; Hungarian poetry; Dezső Kosztolányi; life of Jewish lower-middle-class family; contemporary Hungarian literature
Summary/Abstract: A young scholar, Anna Borgos, finds an unknown and unpublished manuscript in the archive of the Hungarian Academy of Scienses. It is the beginning of an autobiography in which the author, Ilona Harmos, wife of the great Hungarian poet and writer Dezső Kosztolányi, recollects her childhood and youth, depicting the life of a Jewish lower-middle-class family at the turn of the 19th and 20th century and relating the sexual and intellectual 'awakening of spring' of a young girl with an outspokenness unusual in contemporary Hungarian literature. - The selection of the autobiographical novel is situated and analysed by an essay of Anna Borgos.
Journal: Holmi
- Issue Year: 2003
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 3-18
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Hungarian