Viaszfigurák by Cécile Tormay
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Viaszfigurák by Cécile Tormay is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book weaves parable-like, symbolist tales about desire, fate, sacrifice, and the price of happiness, following shifting figures such as a merciless shopkeeper who deals in human destinies, mountain shepherds trapped by a blizzard, the famed courtesan Lais and her proud suitor, and a coastal village facing the sea’s peril. The opening of Viaszfigurák presents four
vivid tableaux. In “Időtlen bolt,” a timeless shopkeeper—an avatar of Fate—sells “happiness” for terrible prices as customers pay with youth, honor, freedom, or love; only a mother buying joy for her child offers her own happiness, which the shopkeeper coldly accepts. “Fehér halál” shows a family snowbound on the Karst, where Ilia fells a hilltop cross for firewood to save them, and is left morally isolated by those he preserved. “A fuvola” reimagines Corinth: Lais recounts how a broken flute led her toward glitter and loss; Dorion takes her, scorns her with a single drachma “for the flute,” then later burns with longing as, behind closed doors, only a flute’s sob answers him. “A veszély” sets a storm-lashed harbor where women and old sailors watch the heaving sea for returning boats, the tension mounting as the first sails struggle home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Tormay, Cécile, 1876-1937 |
|---|---|
| Title | Viaszfigurák |
| Original Publication | Budapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1920. |
| Contents | Időtlen bolt -- Fehér halál -- A fuvola -- A veszély -- Boldogasszony Arkádiában -- Az egyiptomi aranykígyó -- Ő volt -- Te csak dolgozzál -- A mesekönyv kis hercegnője -- Az apostol -- Aeterna Hungaria -- Viaszfigurák. |
| Credits | Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library |
| Language | Hungarian |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Hungarian fiction -- 20th century |
| Subject | Short stories, Hungarian |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77739 |
| Release Date | Jan 19, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 260 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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