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100 1 _aTormay, Cécile,
_d1876-1937
245 1 0 _aMegállt az óra
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
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 2026-01-22
505 0 _aMegállt az óra -- Az utolsó dereglye -- A vén zsibárús szerencséje -- A síró ember meg a nevető ember -- Az erdei ház -- A sorsfolyó -- A siker.
508 _aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library
520 _a“Megállt az óra” by Cécile Tormay is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. Blending lyrical realism with historical reverie and stark allegory, it contemplates a war-broken Budapest, the pull of memory, and the moral hazards of a shaken society. Rather than a single protagonist, the pieces follow shifting observers and castaways who seek meaning in fog, chapels, salons, and storms. Time halted, refuge in the past, and human cruelty under strain are recurring themes. The opening of this collection begins with a brief authorial prelude admitting how hard it is to “tell stories” while the world’s horrors and the city’s recent traumas still throb in memory. In the title story, a narrator wanders through a fog-bound Budapest of beggars and war maimed men, flees into the Rókus chapel, and slips into a vision of old Pest: guilds and lamp-lit streets, a bustling inn, a barber’s shop, gate restrictions, and a music-filled salon where she is taken for an ancestor and glimpses a tender young love—until carriage bells dissolve the spell and she returns to modern noise and unrest. Next, The Last Barge shifts to a brutal shipwreck: a final lifeboat hacks away the drowning, a distant vessel sails past, calm turns to stifling heat, thirst breeds frenzy, and the survivors at last destroy one another—an unflinching allegory of desperation and moral collapse. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBudapest: Magyar Irodalmi Társaság, 1924
653 _aHungarian fiction -- 20th century
653 _aShort stories, Hungarian
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77751
999 _c118471
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