Dezső Szomory
Appearance
Dezső Szomory | |
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Born | Moshe Weisz 2 June 1869 Pest, Hungary, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 30 November 1944 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 75)
Nationality | Hungarian |
Genre | Novel, history play |
Literary movement | Art Nouveau, naturalism, romanticism |
Notable works | Hermelin The Paris Story |
Dezső Szomory (born Moshe Weisz;[1] 2 June 1869 – 30 November 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish writer and dramatist. In his history plays and other works, he developed a unique tone and style of Budapest Hungarian;[2] his work has been compared to that of Marcel Proust.[1] He died during the Holocaust while living under Swedish protection in Budapest, suffering "starvation, loneliness, and depression".[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Fenyvesi 2003, p. 23.
- ^ Sarlos 2002, p. 441.
- ^ Turán 2013, p. 49.
Bibliography
[edit]- Fenyvesi, Charles (2003). When Angels Fooled the World: Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
- Sarlos, Robert K. (2002) [1969]. "Hungary". In Gassner, John; Quinn, Edward (eds.). The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Dover. pp. 437–43.
- Turán, Tamás (2013). "Two Peoples, Seventy Nations: Parallels of National Destiny in Hungarian Intellectual History and Ancient Jewish Thought". In Hatos, Pál; Novák, Attila (eds.). Between Minority and Majority: Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli Ethnical and Cultural Experiences in Recent Centuries. Budapest: Balassi Institute.
Categories:
- 1869 births
- 1944 deaths
- 19th-century Hungarian male writers
- Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust
- Hungarian male dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century Hungarian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Hungarian dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Hungarian male writers
- Theatre people from Budapest
- Deaths by starvation
- Writers from Austria-Hungary
- Hungarian writer stubs