Két mosoly

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Két mosoly

by Frigyes Karinthy

HU·~1 hours

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A striking, single‑act drama opens with a speaker who steps onto the stage to present a woman not as a character but as an idea that has haunted European thought since the late nineteenth century. The narrator frames her as both a mirror and an instrument, a figure shaped by the era’s prevailing misogyny and the artistic attempts to dissect it. Through lyrical, almost sermon‑like language, the piece invites listeners to contemplate how cultural myths turn femininity into a source of both fascination and dread.

As the monologue unfolds, the voice wrestles with admiration, fear, and a yearning for connection, describing moments spent beside the woman on silent lake shores and in moonlit rooms. The tension between reverence and resistance builds a vivid portrait of a gendered archetype that feels simultaneously timeless and unsettling. Listeners are drawn into a rich, introspective meditation on love, power, and the lingering shadows of historic attitudes, all rendered in a poetic rhythm that feels as much a performance as a confession.

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Language

hu

Duration

~1 hours (89K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Albert László from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project

Release date

2018-01-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Frigyes Karinthy

Frigyes Karinthy

1887–1938

A sharp-witted Hungarian writer whose humor, satire, and curiosity about modern life made him one of the most beloved literary voices of early 20th-century Hungary. He is also often remembered beyond literature for the story that anticipated the idea later known as “six degrees of separation.”

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