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| József Attila 1905 - 1937 |
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Attila József was born in a suburb of Budapest on April 3, 1905. His father was said to be a soap boiler from Romania (half Romanian, half Székely-hungarian), who disappeared, when Attila was about 3 years of age, maybe going to America or returning to his own country. The mother, belonging to a magyarized turkish minority, worked as a washerwoman and died from cancer, when the boy was about fourteen. Attila struggled to survive and worked hard in many a job during World War I. He soon wrote and published his first poems and later joined the communist movement. He did not succeed in becoming a junior high school teacher, because a professor promised to keep him away from educating young people, showing Attila József a newspaper with one of his poems. After getting ill with schizophrenia (Neurasthenia gravis) he left his job as a hungarian-french correspondent at Foreign Trade's Institute trying to make his living as a poetry writer. During the last years of suffering his magnificent poetry's lines are not influenced only by his illness, but rebel against it, when pleading for reason and order. Dealing with fear and desperation, they at the same time always are speaking of everybody's fear of an uncertain future of mankind. He dies at last from fascism, hunger and his deadly loneliness. Thirtytwo years old, he committed suicide in winter 1937, running into a freight train near a little village in Balaton area. - Please read his own résumé (curriculum vitae) he had written that same year. |
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