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Emma Ritoók

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Emma Ritoók
Ritoók in 1915
Born(1868-07-15)15 July 1868
Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary
Died3 April 1945(1945-04-03) (aged 76)
Budapest, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
Other namesRitoók Emma
OccupationPoet • Critic • Philosopher.

Emma Ritoók or Ritoók Emma (15 July 1868 – 3 April 1945) was a poet, critic and philosopher.

Biography

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Emman Ritoók was born in Nagyvárad in what was then Austria-Hungary, and is now Oradea in Romania. Ritoók studied in Budapest, Leipzig and Paris and in 1906 she obtained a doctorate in philology. She was a librarian at the Capital Library. In 1897 she won a science competition prize ( A természettudományi irány a szépirodalomban The natural science trend in fiction) of the Szigligeti Társaság of Nagyvárad. In 1905 she distinguished herself with her winning novel Egyenes úton - egyedül . She translated from Scandinavian writers Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Knut Hamsun. She was a member of the Budapest philosophical discussion group "Sunday Circle".[1]

She died in Budapest, Hungary in 1945.

Works

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  • Egyenes úton - egyedül (romano, Bp., 1905);
  • Arany János elmélete az eposzról (study, Bp., 1906);
  • A nagy véletlen (romano, Bp., 1909);
  • Négyen a tűz körül (stories, Bp., 1911);
  • Ellenséges világ (stories, Bp., 1911);
  • Sőtét hónapok (poems, Bp., 1920);
  • A szellem kalandorai (I - II., Romano, Bp., 1921);
  • Pán megváltása (Mistery Game, Bp., 1929);
  • Gyárfás Sándor két élete (Roman, Bp., 1933).

References

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  1. ^ Judith Marcus (1987). Georg Lukács and Thomas Mann: A Study in the Sociology of Literature. Univ of Massachusetts Press. pp. 198–. ISBN 0-87023-486-2.