Vérben, vasban : $b Kis képek a nagy háboruból (inter arma)

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Vérben, vasban : $b Kis képek a nagy háboruból (inter arma)

by Zsigmond Móricz

HU·~5 hours·5 chapters

Chapters

5 total
1

PILLANATKÉPEK, RAJZOK, ESETEK.

3:01:14
2

HADI KIS TÜKÖR.

1:22:39
3

A KÁRPÁTI VIHAR.

1:08:37
4

ZSOLTÁR.

6:47
5

TARTALOM:

0:59

Description

A series of vivid snapshots places the listener on a frost‑bitten Galician railway in 1915, where simple wooden coffins stand beside the endless clatter of steel wheels. The narrator moves from the austere routine of uniformed soldiers to the uneasy humor of cooks, chaplains and railway workers, all rendered with a terse, almost poetic cadence. The prose feels like a collage of sketches and verses, each fragment catching a fleeting emotion—a cold wind, a half‑hearted laugh, the weight of a yellow armband turned black.

Through quick, character‑driven vignettes, the collection reveals how ordinary people try to retain a sense of normalcy amid the chaos of war. Young conscripts clutch brand‑new rifles while old kaplans scramble for a bowl of soup, and the everyday absurdities of trench life emerge with both poignancy and dark wit. Listeners will find themselves drawn into a world where every small gesture, every whispered joke, becomes a quiet act of resistance against the looming conflict.

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Language

hu

Duration

~5 hours (326K characters)

Release date

2024-07-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Zsigmond Móricz

Zsigmond Móricz

1879–1942

A major Hungarian novelist and one of the strongest realist voices of the 20th century, his fiction brought village life, poverty, family strain, and social change onto the page with unusual force. His stories are remembered for their sharp eye, emotional honesty, and deep sympathy for ordinary people.

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