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100 1 _aSzép, Ernő,
_d1884-1953
245 1 0 _aMagyar könyv
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
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-08-24
508 _aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library
520 _a"Magyar könyv : Egy csapat elbeszélés" by Ernő Szép is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. In lyrical, image-rich prose it portrays Hungarian village and small-town life, where everyday routines, petty cruelties, and sudden tenderness mingle. The likely focus is intimate character portraits—an imperious elderly matron, her stoic factotum, and unruly boys—set against the rhythms and losses of a rural world. The opening of the collection follows Karacsné nagyasszony, an eighty-year-old fixture on her porch, and her servant Iszpász Sámuel, amid painstakingly rendered scenes of evening milking: seven cows with distinct names, neighbors’ servants queuing for warm milk, and the perpetual sweeping beneath a great mulberry tree. A street urchin, Három Pista, raids the tree, prompting Karacsné’s fury and Iszpász’s hapless threats with a pitchfork. When a sudden foot-and-mouth outbreak kills all seven cows, the tone softens: another boy, Császi, returns to the tree and Karacsné, subdued by loss, permits him—and soon a troop of children—to eat the fallen fruit. The section closes with a brief, rhapsodic meditation on childhood’s sharp sweetness, echoing the eper’s taste and the fleeting mercy that tempers the old woman’s hardness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBécs: Szerző, 1921
653 _aHungarian literature
700 1 _aKónya, Sándor,
_d1891-1976
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76726
999 _c117451
_d117451