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Géza Csáth
1887–1919
A doctor by training and a writer by instinct, he became one of the most striking voices in early 20th-century Hungarian literature. His dark, psychologically sharp stories and essays still stand out for their intensity and modern feel.
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Zeneszerző portrék
by Géza Csáth
Délutáni álom
by Géza Csáth
About the author
Born József Brenner in 1887, he wrote under the name Géza Csáth and built an unusually wide-ranging career as a writer, playwright, physician, psychiatrist, and music critic. He was also the cousin of the poet and novelist Dezső Kosztolányi.
Csáth became known as an important figure in the renewal of Hungarian fiction in the early 1900s. Alongside his short stories, he wrote music criticism and was noted for recognizing the importance of composers such as Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, and Igor Stravinsky early on.
His life was brief and troubled, ending in 1919 at the age of 32. That combination of medical knowledge, artistic ambition, and personal darkness gives his work its lasting power: even now, it feels intimate, unsettling, and ahead of its time.