Original design for the cover of an antisemitic book (Original work)
1944. 23x16,5 cm;. Very good condition.
Watercolor cover design for the lost, never-published anti-Semitic novel by writer and sociographer György Bözödi (1913-1989)
Writer and sociographer György Bözödi (1913-1989) joined the far-right camp of the popular movement during World War II. His lost novel “Jonah in Nineveh”, written between 1943-1944, was never published. The only known excerpt is the excerpt “Jonah on the Sinking Ship”, published in the magazine “Egyedül Vagyunk” in December 1943. According to the author, the manuscript of the work, which was planned to be published by the Turul Association for Book Day in 1944, as well as the novel, which was already prepared for printing, were lost in the printing house of Sándor Püski in the spring of 1944. The text of the latent work was not retained by György Bözödi and Sándor Püski either.
György Bözödi was declared a war criminal in the Writers' Union trial due to his published novel excerpts following the complaint of the so-called "Jewish People's Community". He lost his job in Cluj-Napoca. This is how he testified about it: "One fine spring day, as I was leaving the Museum — my apartment was there too — two civilians grabbed me and took me straight to the police station, where they beat me up in the corridor, led by a gentleman named Eichorn." The writer was imprisoned without trial by the Romanian authorities until Stalin's death and made to work as a forced laborer in the Danube Delta. Later, he worked as a researcher in Romania until his death.
The now unearthed cover design, which is of unparalleled literary and cultural historical value, is the only known and tangible evidence of the novel's former existence.
Price: €1,000.00