Gregor Csiky

February 8, 1842 (age 48)

Pankota, Romania

In Gergely Csiky's Az ellendllhatatlan (" L'lrresis- tible "), which obtained a prize from the Hungarian Academy, 'he showed the distinctive features of his talent-directness, freshness, realistic vigour, and highly individual style. In rapid succession he enriched Magyar literature with realistic genre- pictures, such as A Proletdrok ("Proletariate"), Buborckok (" Bubbles "), Ket szcrelcm (" Two Loves "), A szegyenlds (" The Bashful "), Athalia, &c. , in all of which he seized on one or another feature or type of modern life, dramatizing it with unusual intensity, qualified by chaste and well-balanced diction. Of the latter, his classical studies may, no doubt, be taken as (he inspiration, and his translation of Sophocles and Plautus will long rank with the most successful of Magyar translations of the ancient classics.