Miklós Bátori

Miklós Bátori, pen name of Miklós Bajomi[1] (1919[1] or in 1920[2] – 25 February 1992[3]) was a Roman Catholic writer of Hungarian origin.

Life

Born in Bátaszék (Hungary), in 1944 he published his first novel, Ingovány (literally: "Mudflat") in Budapest, still under the name Miklós Bajomi.[4] He was taken prisoner of war in France in 1945, and enrolled at the Sorbonne after his release. He returned to Hungary in January 1947 for family reasons[5] and then went on to study at a university in Budapest. He then taught in the provinces (from 1951 to 1956) in a technical high school in Győr where he was also director of the boarding school.[6]

He fled Hungary after the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and moved to Paris. He was a member of the editorial board of the Hungarian literary and cultural magazine in Paris Ahogy Lehet[7] and also wrote in other Hungarian emigration newspapers.[5]

In 1960, he published in Hungarian Kálvária in Cologne (Calvary Road) after the address of his high school (in French Un étrange paradis), which describes the time when, as a teacher at Győr, he fled with a group of Catholics persecuted by the communist power[8] and in 1961, A halál a szőlőskertben (literally: "Death in the vineyard"), which evokes the effort of Christians to recover, under a hostile regime, the purity of the early Church. This last book, translated and published in French in 1965 under the title Le Vignoble des saints, was awarded the Grand prix catholique de littérature.

In 1963, Les Briques is a novel from the last days of the Hungarian revolution.

In 1967, Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu features the evangelist Mark who tells what he has seen throughout his life.

His following works were written directly in French.

Bátori died in Paris.

Work

  • Un étrange paradis,[9] Plon, 1961 (translated from Hungarian) Kálvária, Cologne 1960)
  • Les Briques,[10] Éditions Robert Laffont, 1963 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript)[11]
  • Le Vignoble des saints,[12] Robert Laffont, 1965 (translated from Hungarian A halál a szőlőskertben, Cologne 1961, Grand prix catholique de littérature.
  • Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu,[13] Robert Laffont, 1967 (translated from the Hungarian manuscript[14] ISBN 978-2221014745 (crowned by the Académie française)[15]
  • Le lièvre a pleuré,[16] Robert Laffont, 1969, ISBN 2221014731
  • La vie est un océan,[17] Robert Laffont, 1973
  • Bakfitty,[18] Fayard, 1977
  • Notre ami, Lazare (chronique),[19] Éditions du Cerf, 1983)[2][5]

References

  1. ^ a b The authority notice of the general catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France gives this date of 1919 with a question mark. Gyula Borbándi also indicates 1919 in her encyclopedia (Borbándi 1992).
  2. ^ a b Back cover of his novel Les Briques, Robert Laffont, reprint. 1984 ISBN 2-221-04311-1.
  3. ^ 23 March 1919 — 18 February 1992 according to Magyar Emigráns Írók és Műveik [Les écrivains hongrois émigrés et leurs œuvres], on Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (Musée de la littérature, Budapest): (in Hungarian) "'Bajomi Miklós".
  4. ^ (in Hungarian) Ingovány : regény — Bajomi Miklós, on Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum: notice of Endre Illés' copy with the dedication "À mon modèle - L'auteur, 5 mai 1944".
  5. ^ a b c Borbándi, Gyula (1992). Nyugati magyar irodalmi lexikon és bibliográfia; Encyclopédie et bibliographie de la littérature hongroise à l'Ouest (in Hungarian). Budapest: Hitel. ISBN 963-04-1859-2..
  6. ^ Szerencse, László. "Az internátustól a kollégiumig". Jedlik Ányos Gépipari és Informatikai Középiskola és Kollégium (in Hungarian). [Lycée technique et internat Jedlik Ányos, Győr].
  7. ^ Borbándi 1992, "Ahogy Lehet".
  8. ^ Philippe Brindet (2014-01-04). "Bibliographie des œuvres de Miklo[s] Batori". revue Thomas.
  9. ^ Un étrange paradis on WorldCat
  10. ^ Les Briques on WorldCat
  11. ^ BnF 347472544
  12. ^ Le Vignoble des saints on WorldCat
  13. ^ Les Va-nu-pieds de Dieu on WorldCat)
  14. ^ BnF 32915054j
  15. ^ "Miklos BATORI". Académie française.
  16. ^ Le lièvre a pleuré on WorldCat
  17. ^ La vie est un océan on WorldCat
  18. ^ Bakfitty on WorldCat
  19. ^ Notre ami, Lazare (chronique) on WorldCat