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Sándor Márai (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈmaːrɒi]; Archaic English name: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist. Biography [ edit ] Márai was born on 11 April 1900 in the city of Kassa , Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia ).
Sándor Márai (pronunciado [ˈʃa:ndor ˈma:rɔ.i]; Kassa, Hungría; hoy Košice en Eslovaquia; 11 de abril de 1900 – San Diego, California, Estados Unidos; 22 de febrero de 1989) fue un novelista, periodista y dramaturgo húngaro.
He wrote forty-six books, mainly novels, though only a few have been translated into English. He is not to be confused with the writer Sándor Isg Marai (not his real name), author of Chronicles of the Last Days of Casanova and other works, who is no relation and an inferior writer.
34,098 ratings3,681 reviews. Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.
Born in Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), to a Hungarian noble family, Sándor Márai traveled to Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris in his youth before settling in Budapest in 1928. The first person to write reviews of Franz Kafka, Márai gained prominence as a writer in Hungary through his realist…
In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka. He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienn. Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
Embers is a 1942 novel by the Hungarian writer Sándor Márai. Its original Hungarian title is A gyertyák csonkig égnek, which means "Candles burn until the end". The narrative revolves around an elderly general who invites an old friend from military school for dinner; the friend had disappeared mysteriously for 41 years, and the dinner ...
