Arianna : Tizenhat elbeszélés by Ferenc Herczeg
"Arianna" by Ferenc Herczeg is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The volume moves through Hungarian provincial and gentry settings to explore love, vanity, honor, and the tension between individual feeling and social principle, often contrasting self-possessed women with sensitive or impulsive men. Expect psychologically pointed tableaux rather than plot-heavy adventures, with characters tested by desire, duty, and reputation. The opening of the collection presents four vivid
pieces. In the first, a solitary estate’s enigmatic divorcée, nicknamed “Arianna,” hosts her ex-husband and his friend; under the evening sky she coolly argues that women love the man who lets them shine, reframing the Ariadne myth as female self-assertion. Next, a narrator visits a highly capable widow and her imaginative son, Jancsi: the boy’s make-believe heroics and forbidden friendship with a peasant girl clash with his mother’s unbending “principles,” leading to a painful domestic rupture that hints at why the long-dead father fled. Then comes Naca, a modest doctor’s daughter whose calm household steadies a panicking count; once diagnosed with nicotine poisoning and soothed by her simple goodness, he still bolts back to Parisian glitter, leaving Naca quietly heartsore. Finally, in “The House Friend,” a family intimate rails at a young wife’s affair with a miserly aristocrat; a duel ensues, the husband is wounded, and the piece closes on the bitter aftertaste of vanity, betrayal, and wavering forgiveness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Herczeg, Ferenc, 1863-1954 |
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| LoC No. | ca17003871 |
| Title | Arianna : Tizenhat elbeszélés |
| Original Publication | Budapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1904. |
| Contents | Arianna -- Jancsi édesanyja -- Naca -- A házibarát -- Kék és piros -- A szőke Marietta -- A rejtelmes özvegy -- Csendes emberölés -- A segédjegyző regénye -- A nyolcas szám -- A fekete lovas -- Gyorsvonaton -- Csak leány -- Igaz szerelem -- Leánykérő -- A kék csóka. |
| 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 | Short stories, Hungarian |
| Subject | Hungarian fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77409 |
| Release Date | Dec 6, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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