Gyula Krúdy
1878–1933
Biography
Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933) was a Hungarian writer and journalist who spent much of his working life on newspapers. He was born in Nyíregyháza, a provincial town in what was then Austria-Hungary, and after early work on papers in provincial cities he moved to Budapest in 1896. He supported his wife and three children through short stories and novels that often appeared first as newspaper serials. His later work is full of memory and nostalgia for a vanished provincial and gentry world.
His best-known creation is Szindbád, a Hungarian counterpart of the Sinbad of the Arabian Nights, who wanders through Hungary and beyond looking back on his love affairs, journeys and disappointments. The Szindbád pieces are closer to reverie than to plot. They follow the drift of recollection and linger on food, weather, light and the smell of places. Krúdy's long, winding sentences move easily between comedy and melancholy, and he is often read as a bridge between the old provincial Hungary and the modern city.
The site holds two of his books: Bukfenc, whose title means somersault, and Szindbád ifjúsága (Sinbad's Youth), which proved a success when it came out in 1911. Reading them gives a sense of the Krúdy voice, in which the rhythm of the sentence matters as much as the story it tells.
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Books
Bukfenc
by Gyula Krúdy
Gyöngyvirág grows up in her grandmother's shuttered house in a Pest side street, a discreet place where gentlemen come and go. Krúdy's short novel follows her from a strange childhood to first love and the hope of getting away.
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.Szindbád ifjusága: próza
by Gyula Krúdy
Szindbád, a restless lover who has passed through many towns and many women, sets out again on journeys that are mostly journeys into memory: old houses, old loves, small provincial towns. These are the first of Krúdy's Szindbád stories, dreamy and melancholy, followed by…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.