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The Paul Street Boys / Ferenc Molnár / Pál utcai fiúk in English language / Paperback / Corvina 2015 / Hungarian Literary Classic

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The Paul Street Boys / Ferenc Molnár / Pál utcai fiúk in English language / Paperback / Corvina 2015 / Hungarian Literary Classic

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Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Author: Ferenc Molnár
Publisher: Corvina (2015)

ISBN-10: 9631359522

ISBN-13: 978-9631359527 / 9789631359527
English translation: Louis Rittenberg

 

English Summary

The Paul Street Boys (A Pál utcai fiúk - angol nyelven) Fordította: Loius Rittenberg Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) is perhaps best known in the world for his brilliant drawing room comedies such as The Swan and The Guardsman. But in Hungary it was his novel for young people, The Paul Street Boys (1907), which insured his lasting popularity. Translated into English in 1927 and here updated, the novel about two gangs of boys fighting a war for a piece of land, a derelict building site which to them is a cherished symbol of freedom, is still the same fascinating story it was nearly a century ago. "At the time Ferenc Molnár wrote The Paul Street Boys, Cooper's Indian war-stories were extremely popular in Hungary and there is the flavour of their morality in this book," writes Mátyás Sárközi, Molnár's grandson, in his Preface to the present edition. "There are examples of good camaraderie, loyalty, idealism, but Molnár always manages to save himself from being just a shade too sentimental. Like Mark Twain he has the wit and the good writer's sense to mix the grotesque with the pathetic." A true world classic of its kind, The Paul Street Boys, which has been out of print for decades, is a juvenile classic that has lost none of its magic.

 

Hungarian Summary

A Pál utcai fiúkat az teszi népszerűvé, hogy az élet minden ága-boga benne van: az iskola és játék, barátság és harc, pártoskodás és összetartás - minden, egészen a halálig. S az író mindezt gyerekésznek, gyerekszívnek szólóan szőtte regénybe. A gyerekvilág tükrében láttatja a világot. Boka, Nemecsek, Áts Feri és a többiek története átélhető csaknem bárhol, s az ezredfordulón semmivel sem kevésbé, mint születésekor, a XX. század kezdetén. Talán ez a magyarázata a regény példátlan hazai és világsikerének. Közel két tucat nyelven jelent meg, s ajánlott olvasmány nemcsak a magyar iskolákban, hanem távoli földrészeken is. E kötetben a népszerű regény angol nyelven olvasható.

 

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