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by Ernö Szép,John Bátki,Dezsö Tandori

Author:	Ernö Szép,John Bátki,Dezsö Tandori
Subcategory:	History & Criticism
Language:	English
Publisher:	Oxford University Press; 1 edition (January 12, 1995)
Pages:	208 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.1
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The Smell of Humans is the story of the next nineteen days, narrated with a remarkable degree of. .

The Smell of Humans is the story of the next nineteen days, narrated with a remarkable degree of compassion and detachment by a master of twentieth-century Hungarian literature. Ernő Szép was born on 30 June 1884 in Huszt, in the eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and grew up in a small town in eastern Hungary, where his father was a schoolteacher, and his mother a seamstress. Subjects: Authors, Hungarian-20th century-Biography. Holocaust Survivors-Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Hungary-Personal Narratives. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Hungary.

The Smell of Humans book. Ernő Szép, John Batki (Translator). Details (if other): Cancel. Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944.

Author(s): Ernő Szép, John Batki (Translator). The Smell of Humans (Hardcover). Published September 15th 1994 by Central European University Press. ISBN: 1858660114 (ISBN13: 9781858660110). Emberszag (Hardcover). Published 1999 by Osiris Kiadó. Millenniumi könyvtár, Hardcover, 159 pages. Author(s): Ernő Szép. ISBN: 9633798442 (ISBN13: 9789633798447). Hardcover, 208 pages. ISBN: 1858660149 (ISBN13: 9781858660141).

Erno Szep, Dezso Tandori, John Batki. Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944

The Smell of Humans: a memoir of the holocaust in Hungary. Translator John Batki. Budapest: Noran Books.

John Batki is an American short story writer, poet, and translator. The Smell of Humans: a memoir of the holocaust in Hungary. Central European University Press. ISBN 978-1-85866-011-0. Krúdy's chronicles: turn-of-the-century Hungary in Gyula Krúdy's journalism. Translator John Bátki.

The Smell of Humans : Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary. By (author) Erno Szep, Translated by John Batki, Introduction by Dezso Tandori. Central European University Press Book. Free delivery worldwide.

Gyula Purcsi Barna, Szép Ernő (Budapest, 1984); Dezső Tandori, ‘Please Forgive M.’ in The Smell of Humans: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary, by Ernő Szép (Budapest, 1994), pp. xiii–xxv.

Unlike some other Hungarian translations of texts, this one by John Batki, a scholar who left Hungary as a teenager, manages to render into very colloquial but never casual English what must be marvelous Magyar prose. Szep's style evidently is cosmopolitan, with a snap and joie de vivre that persists despite his subject matter.

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Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. Written by a master of twentieth-century Hungarian literature, it describes life for the Jewish population of German-occupied Budapest--the constant fear of deportation overshadowing the daily trials of living in the ghetto--before concentrating on the writer's own internment in a labor camp during the first weeks of rule by the extremist Arrow Cross regime. The experiences of those nineteen days spent in the camp are both harsh and disturbing, yet throughout his memoir Szép manages to maintain an extraordinary degree of compassion and detachment, even humor. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the events described, this is the last of Szép's many literary works to appear in English.

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In his book, Erno Szep the writer / poet of this short novel, takes us to a hidden part of Hungarian history in a very deeply emotional story-telling. It is easy reading on a very sad subject. I recommend this book to the younger generation, those who have not lived through that dark age.

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When you see the title and subtitle, you might expect an unrelentingly grim report--so unfortunately familiar from the genre of accounts by Holocaust survivors. Instead, after reading Erno Szep's story a few weeks spent digging trenches in a slave labor camp, you close the book not weary of a cheerless tale, but wishing you could have found out more--especially after Szep returned to Budapest just in time for the Soviet siege and the Nazi/Arrow Cross defense. In a series of very brief episodes, he relates with all the detail he can bear his view of the Jews in Budapest as most of its "able" men first were rounded up, then sent off to work under the sneers and beatings of the Arrow Cross. He conveys vividly the feel of forced labor and little food, the monotony, the damp, and the hunger increasing as their supplies and energy dwindle and the toil takes its toll.
Unlike some other Hungarian translations of texts, this one by John Batki, a scholar who left Hungary as a teenager, manages to render into very colloquial but never casual English what must be marvelous Magyar prose. Szep's style evidently is cosmopolitan, with a snap and joie de vivre that persists despite his subject matter. Imagine a less taciturn, more convivial counterpart to Primo Levi. My only withholding of a fifth star in the rating: a stereotypically verbose and clumsily experimental preface by Dezso Tandori that reminds me of the worst of translated Hungarian stylists too enamoured of their own cleverness to remember their reader's attention span. Stick with Szep's own "autobiographical statement" and Batki's remarks. How I wish Szep had written much more! (1884-1953)
Parts of his story shed new light on old events: the process by which were extended, denied, and re-extended passes by the Swedish (although Raoul Wallenberg's not mentioned by name--perhaps postwar Hungarian censorship may have been a factor?) and Spanish embassies; the fate of those who had grown up entirely Christian by birth and belief but had Jewish grandparents; the more recent converts hoping the excape the yellow star; and the printers. In this last vignette, Szep wonders why that largely socialist union, in WWI, allowed its members to produce so much propaganda for the capitalists. If they had simply refused to print the disortions of the ruling class, Szep muses, perhaps war would have been averted. Hmmm.

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