Be Faithful Unto Death

Be Faithful Unto Death is the moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old-established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. Misi, a dreamer and would-be writer, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket. The torments through which he goes - and grows - are superbly described, and Stephen Vizinczey's new translation unleashes the full power of Moricz's prose. First published in 1921, the novel is brimming with vivid detail from the provincial life that Moricz knew so well, and shot through with a sense of the tragic fate of a newly truncated Hungary. Yet the quality of the experience captured here is universal. The author's uncanny ability to rediscover for us precisely what it feels like to be that child makes this portrait of the artist as a young boy not merely a Hungarian but a European classic.

About the author

Zsigmond Móricz (1879-1942) wrote poems, essays and short stories as well as novels, and was one of the group of writer associated with the journal Nyugat (West). He excelled particulary at portraying the life of the rural and small-town Hungary in which he himself grew up. Móricz's novel The Torch and a collection of his short stories, Seven Pennies, also exist in English translation.

Summary

Misi, a bright and sensitive boy boarding at a conservative school in the Hungarian city of Debrecen, is falsely accused of stealing a winning lottery ticket. First published in 1921, this novel is a nostalgic portrait of Hungarian provincial life.

Product details

• Authors: Zsigmond M. Ricz, Zsigmond M´oricz, Zsigmond Moricz, Zsigmond Móricz, Stephen Vizinczey, ZSIGMOND MORICZ
• Assisted by: Stephen Vizinczey (Editor), Stephen Vizinczey (Translation)
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9781858660608
• ISBN: 978-1-85866-060-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 220 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: CEU Press Classics; CEU Press Classics; Central European Classics; Ceu Press Classics (Formerly C; CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature