Carpathian Rhapsody

Béla Illés

1933

In the Casino

At the time Iván Mihalkó called on me after my adventure in the forest to say that his father wanted to see me, I was not yet acquainted with Peméte, and had never heard the name of the bear-killer. Had Iván told me that Mihalkó, the blacksmith, wanted to see me, I would certainly not have been so quick to respond. But hearing that…

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Béla Illés

1895–1974

Béla Illés was a Hungarian communist who pioneered socialist realism in Hungarian literature. He served in the Habsburg army during World War I and participated in the communist revolution following the war. When the revolutionary regime was crushed, he fled to Vienna and then Carpathian Ukraine before finding refuge once again in Vienna. He was expelled in 1923 and went to Moscow, where he worked in various positions in the cultural bureaucracy until he returned to Budapest with the Russian army in 1945.

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