Földvári Books

Illustrated Novel By the Editor of the Avant-Garde Magazine “Periszkop”

Szántó, György

Fekete éveim. [My Dark Years.]

Budapest: Révai, 1935. Illustrated with reproductions of Cubist-Expressionist paintings and graphics of the author. In publisher's illustrated cloth. The two volumes bound together. 205; (2–3)–213 p. with 8 plates. In good condition.

György Szántó (1893–1961) studied architecture, later he worked as costume and scenic designer at Kolozsvár (Cluj). Szántó planned to be a painter but he was injured in WWI on his eyes which partly blined him. Between 1925–1926 edited one of the most important Eastern-European Avant-garde periodicals the “Periszkop”.

This book is his autobiographical novel of the years between 1921–1931 and also gives a portray of Hungary and Transylvania of the time. Describes how Szántó gave up his hope to be a painter as an outcome of his injury in the war. Traces the stories of the most important Hungarian Avant-garde and Modernist periodicals like Ma, Periszkóp, Diogenész and Korunk. Presents relevant facts of the life of Lajos Kassák and Zoltán Fábry.

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Price: €500.00