Frigyes Karinthy (June 25, 1887 in Budapest - August 29, 1938 in Siófok) was a Hungarian author, playwright, poet, journalist and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees of separation concept, in his 1929 short story, Láncszemek (Chains). Karinthy remains one of the most popular Hungarian writers. He was the father of writer Ferenc Karinthy. June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Siófok is a town in Hungary on the southern bank of Lake Balaton in Somogy County. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Look up Translator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that human beings are connected through relationships with at most six other people. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Karinthy is perhaps best known in English for two remarkable novellas that continue the adventures of Swift's character Gulliver. Voyage to Faremido is an early examination of artificial intelligence, while Capillaria is a polished and darkly humorous satire on the 'battle of the sexes'. Voyage to Faremido (Hungarian: Utazás Faremidóba, 1916) [1] is a fantastic novel by Frigyes Karinthy. ... Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthys fantasy novel Voyage to Faremido Capillaria (1922), which depicts an undersea world inhabited exclusively by women, recounts, in a satirical vein reminiscent of the style of Jonathan Swift (author of Gullivers Travels), the first time that men and women experience sex with one another. ...

Life and work

Karinthy was born into a bourgeois family in Budapest. He started his writing career as a journalist and remained a writer of short, humorous blurbs until his death. He rose to instant fame in 1912 with the publication of his literary parodies called Így írtok ti (That's the Way You Write). He expanded the collection continuously during the following years. Among his early works, his collection of short stories from school life, Tanár úr, kérem (Please, Mr. Teacher) also stands out for its grasp of the trials and tribulations of the average schoolboy. Another popular highlight is his translation of A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, that made it a cult book also in Hungary. Bourgeois at the end of the thirteenth century. ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... Alan Alexander Milne (January 18, 1882 – January 31, 1956), also known as A. A. Milne, was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various childrens poems. ... Edward Winnie-the-Pooh Bear, sometimes referred to as Pooh, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

After the First World War, his writing became more serious and engaged, though never leaving a satirical bent. Karinthy cited Jonathan Swift as a major influence: from this arose the novel Utazás Faremidóba and its sequel, Capillaria. Many of his novels and stories also deal with the difficulties of relationships between men and women, partly due to his unhappy second marriage. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire. ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. ... Voyage to Faremido (Hungarian: Utazás Faremidóba, 1916) [1] is a fantastic novel by Frigyes Karinthy. ...

Karinthy was operated with a tumor in the brain in Stockholm in 1936. He describes this experience in his autobiographical novel, Utazás a koponyám körül (Voyage Around my Cranium). He died a few months afterwards during a holiday at Lake Balaton. Tumor or tumour literally means swelling, and is sometimes still used with that meaning. ...   (IPA: ; UN/LOCODE: SE STO) is the capital of Sweden, and consequently the site of its Government and Parliament as well as the residence of the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf. ... Lake Balaton (Hungarian: Balaton; Latin: Lacus Pelso; German: Plattensee; Serbian: Blatno Jezero or Блатно Језеро; meaning approximately muddy lake in Slavic, probable origin of the name), located in Hungary, is the largest lake in Central Europe. ...

Private life

Karinthy was married two times. He got married with the actress Etel Judik in 1913. The marriage was serene and happy and they had a son called Gábor. Tragically, Etel died very young during the Spanish flu epidemy in 1919. In 1920, he married the Jewish psychiatrist Aranka Böhm, with whom he had another son, the writer Ferenc Karinthy. This second marriage proved far less happy than the first one, as Aranka turned out to be promiscuous, flamboyant and psychologically unstable, inspiring much of Karinthy's writing on men and women. Public Notice The 1918 flu pandemic was a category 5 influenza pandemic between 1918 and 1920 caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. ... An epidemic is generally a widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Promiscuity is the practice of making relatively unselective, casual and indiscriminate choices. ...

External links

• Site about Karinthy
• Biography

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