Fritz karinthy biography

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1887-1938) Hungarian translator and author, best known for his work outside the sf field, mostly humorous Satires first published as newspaper feuilletons; he also translated into Hungarian works by Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, among others; father of Ferenc Karinthy.

His untranslated first story, first published in an unidentified periodical and seemingly never translated, was visibly written under the influence of Jules Verne. His two continuations of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726; rev 1735) – Utázas Faremidóba (1916) and Capillária (1921) – assembled as Voyage to Faremido/Capillaria (omni trans Paul Tabori1965 Hungary) – are intensely imagined Fantastic Voyages whose stopping points are societies conceived with Thought Experiment clarity.

The first carries Karinthy's version of Gulliver to a Robot society whose inhabitants communicate by musical tones (see Communica