author
Béla Révész
1876–1944
A Hungarian writer and journalist with a strong social conscience, he wrote about working-class life, Jewish themes, and the human cost of his time. He is also remembered for his close connection to the poet Endre Ady and for literary studies that helped preserve Ady’s legacy.
2 Audiobooks
Miniatürök
by Béla Révész
Beethoven: Eine Phantasie
by Béla Révész
About the author
Born in Esztergom in 1876 as Róth Benjámin, Béla Révész became known as a Hungarian socialist writer and journalist. He worked for the Social Democrat daily Népszava from 1906 and later became a permanent member of its editorial board.
His writing was shaped by social concern and often engaged with Jewish subjects as well as the lives of ordinary people. He is especially noted for his friendship with the poet Endre Ady, which led to important biographical writing on Ady and helped secure Révész’s place in Hungarian literary history.
Révész died in Auschwitz in 1944. That tragic end gives his life story an added weight, but his work still stands out for its empathy, political commitment, and close involvement with the literary world of early 20th-century Hungary.