Herczeg, Ferenc

Herczeg, Ferenc

▪ Hungarian writer
born Sept. 22, 1863, Versecz, Hung.
died Feb. 24, 1954, Budapest

      novelist and playwright, the leading literary exponent of conservative-nationalist opinion in early 20th-century Hungary.

      Herczeg was born into a well-to-do family of German origin. Although he studied law, he chose a literary career, which was successful from the publication of his first novel in 1890. In 1895 he founded Új Idők (“New Times”), which remained for half a century the literary magazine of the conservative upper and middle classes of Hungary. His light novels of manners contained just enough irony, humour, and social criticism to cause a harmless shock to the conservative public for whom they were intended and for whom this criticism was a novel experience. The best example of this type is A Gyurkovics lányok (1893; “The Gyurkovics Girls”), in which a clever mother marries off her seven daughters. In his later, more serious novels, Herczeg often used historical settings, the most successful being Az élet kapuja (1919; “The Gates of Life”), set in Renaissance Italy. His social comedies, such as A három testőr (1894; “The Three Bodyguards”) and Kék róka (1917; “The Blue Fox Stole”), are amusing and skillfully written. Bizánc (1904; “Byzantium”) and A híd (1925; “The Bridge”) are notable historical dramas.

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