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100 1 _aBerde, Mária,
_d1889-1949
245 1 0 _aHaláltánc
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-10
508 _aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library
520 _a"Haláltánc" by Mária Berde is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story appears to focus on a group of characters—primarily the introspective and ill Hugh, the delicate, withdrawn Ginevra, and the practical Madame Mercati—who are living in a mountain sanatorium, presumably for the treatment of lung disease. Against the backdrop of a starkly beautiful Alpine landscape, the novel explores themes of illness, isolation, the longing for life, and the tentative emergence of love and hope among young people confronted by their own fragility and mortality. The opening of "Haláltánc" immerses the reader in the sun-drenched yet melancholic world of a high-altitude sanatorium. Ginevra, an Irish girl marked by illness and loss, quietly gathers flowers, while Hugh—himself a long-term patient—watches her with growing fascination. Their hesitant interactions are colored by the ever-present reality of sickness and the rituals of the sanatorium community, where small gestures, glances, and brief conversations take on enormous emotional weight. Tensions subtly arise as other patients—like the vibrant Ziegler and the spirited Aimée—interact with Ginevra, prompting moments of jealousy, self-doubt, and painful longing in Hugh. The detailed descriptions of routines, landscape, and fragile relationships set a contemplative, bittersweet tone, as the characters navigate hope, connection, and the shadow of death that hovers around them. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBudapest: Athenaeum, 1924
653 _aHungarian fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76060
999 _c116785
_d116785