A podolini takácsné : Elbeszélések by Gyula Krúdy
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A podolini takácsné by Gyula Krúdy is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. In wistful, atmospheric episodes from Upper Hungary’s towns, it blends memory, first love, provincial custom, and superstition with gentle irony and melancholy. The title piece follows the upright landowner Pázsmáti János, who brings his frail son to Podolin and is stirred by an old flame, while other tales portray a puffed‑up district clerk, a
spectral monk, and wanderers on wintry roads. Readers who enjoy lyrical storytelling, nostalgia, and folklore‑tinged realism will likely be drawn to it. The opening of the collection moves through several vivid vignettes. First, Pázsmáti travels north to place his son with a takács family and meets the weaver’s wife Irma—his youthful ideal—prompting tender reminiscence and a dreamlike flare of desire before he regains his composure and leaves the boy in their keeping. Next, a servant‑bureau clerk, Haviár Józsi, who prides himself on knowing every soul in a tót district, loses his wife, remarries unwisely, and watches legend and fate reclaim his children before drink finishes him and his hard‑won local knowledge. A haunting then unfolds as a timid spinster, Scholtz Antónia, meets the famed headless monk, grows serenely radiant for a month, and dies on the foretold day. A wintry road tale follows: two mercenaries, a crafty pilgrim, and a fugitive nun cross paths at an inn; later, in the snow, the soldiers stumble to a roadside crucifix where their stolen boots hang, yet only one is saved by warmth and childlike faith. Finally, in Buda’s oldest street, the young scholar Hollós dr. nightly hunts the source of an ethereal song and at last dares to stand beneath a lamplit balcony as the white‑clad singer appears. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Krúdy, Gyula, 1878-1933 |
|---|---|
| Title | A podolini takácsné : Elbeszélések |
| Original Publication | Budapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1914. |
| Contents | A podolini takácsné -- A tótok elfogynak -- A fejnélküli barát -- Jézuska csizmája -- Ábrándok -- Gyurkovay hazaballag -- Dickens úr barátai -- Zathureczky agarai -- Asszonyok inspekciója -- A kapitány kalapja -- A gárdista bundája -- A bujdosó földesuraságról -- Korvin lelke -- Kázmér -- Falu -- A Hartwig -- Egy régi bál -- Őserdőben -- Misley pipázott -- A folyó mellett -- Őszi nap falun -- Az enyicki menyecskék -- Egy végzett földesúr történetéből -- Öreg idő. |
| Credits | Albert László from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project |
| Language | Hungarian |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Hungarian fiction -- 20th century |
| Subject | Short stories, Hungarian |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77261 |
| Release Date | Nov 17, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 229 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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