Az örök film : Müncheni regény by Mária Berde
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"Az örök film : Müncheni regény" by Mária Berde is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in Munich’s Schwabing artists’ quarter, it follows the Hungarian student Etelka, her admirer Aladár, and a vivid circle of painters, designers, poets, and expatriates orbiting the Biedermann boardinghouse. The story probes the allure and hazards of bohemian life, where play-acting, artistic ambition, and social masquerade blur into everyday existence. The beginning of the
novel introduces a bright, unseasonal Munich day, where Etelka meets the iparművésznő Karla at the museum and becomes intrigued by a new social world. Aladár pursues entry to a Biedermann penzió fête via the scruffy painter Bukovina, who engineers a fake police raid to outwit a dance ban, revealing a motley crowd: the commanding Ingert, the magnetic Miss Northon, and other eccentrics whirling through smoky rooms improvised from former stables. A later coffee gathering welcomes Zdenka, a naive craftswoman from Prague who is mocked for her accent until Aladár gallantly intervenes; the celebrated poet Lilienthal drops in, while an earnest student-poet, Zwirn, courts notice with verses. The group spills to the intimate Bohém café, where wall-scribbled modernisms frame more dancing and self-display; Karla meets the sober photographer Franci, whose cool critique hints at Schwabing’s tendency to intoxicate, distract, and sometimes undo the young who drift into its orbit. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Berde, Mária, 1889-1949 |
|---|---|
| Title | Az örök film : Müncheni regény |
| Original Publication | Budapest: Athenaeum, 1917. |
| Credits | Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 67.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | Hungarian |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Munich (Germany) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Hungarian fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76315 |
| Release Date | Jun 15, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 315 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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