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Frigyes Karinthy (January 25, 1887 - August 29, 1938) was an UsefulNotes/{{Hungar|y}}ian journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and poet.
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Born in 1887, he was an UsefulNotes/{{Hungar|y}}ian journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and poet.
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* HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: He once wrote an article in which he explains that he should write a humorous article. Yet, he can't because a young man is standing behind him and reads everything he writes.[[note]]Karinthy usually wrote in coffee houses[[/note]]
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* ''Tragedy of the Embryo'', a novel
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* ''Tragedy ''Theatre/{{Tragedy of the Embryo'', Embryo}}'', a novel
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* TheAbridgedSeries: ''Tragedy of the Embryo'' is a {{parody}} of Creator/ImreMadach's ''Tragedy of Man'' as it's deliberately presented as a compressed stage adaptation of the original work.
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* DubNameChange: ''Winnie to Micimackó'', or ''Mici Bear'', changes Winnie the Pooh's name to Mici. There's an urban legend about why this happened. Supposedly, Frigyes Karinthy wasn't that well-versed in the English language, so asked his sister, Mici, to translate a rough draft for him. Renaming Winnie to Mici was his way of thanking her. Seeing that Karinthy's other occupations included ''being'' a translator himself, this story is often treated as just a rumor, although smaller translation goof-ups present in the books do grant some credibility to it.
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You might have heard about the OneDegreeOfSeparation trope, that weird thing in fiction that causes every character to be tangentially connected to almost every other character. The UnbuiltTrope version of that was proposed by Frigyes Karinthy in his short story "Chains (Láncszemek)". There, he'd come to the conclusion that every single person in this world can be connected to any other person by other six people at most.
Born in 1887, he was an UsefulNotes/{{Hungar|y}}ian journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and poet.
Not to be confused with Creator/AdaKarinthy, Frigyes' older sister and a notable {{artist|s}} on her own.
!!Frigyes Karinthy's works:
* ''Capillaria'', a novel
* "Chains", a short story
* ''A Journey Round My Skull'', a novel
* ''Tragedy of the Embryo'', a novel
* The Hungarian translation of ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''
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!! Tropes found across his works:
* CreatorBreakdown: His obscure and borderline-misogynistic satirical novel ''Capillaria'' was written during Karinthy's second marriage. In it, giant sex-crazed women torment and devour a race of phallus-shaped dwarves. It was not a very happy marriage.
* RecursiveReality: {{Parodied}} and {{exaggerated}}.
* RecursiveTranslation: In "This Is How YOU Write", Frigyes Karinthy translates a philosophical poem by one of his contemporaries into German, then back to Hungarian, then repeating the process several times. The first recursive translation turns the poem into a skit featuring the Jews Ufer and Hertz. The second one yields an ad for Hertz Salami.
* {{Woolseyism}}: His CultClassic Hungarian translation of ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' is highly favored over the original for its extensive use of more "colorful" expressions. No, not swearing, but things like using "barked Pooh triumphantly" in place of "said Pooh". Fans of the translated version tend to see the original as uninspired and dry, some even calling it downright annoying.
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Born in 1887, he was an UsefulNotes/{{Hungar|y}}ian journalist, translator, playwright, novelist, and poet.
Not to be confused with Creator/AdaKarinthy, Frigyes' older sister and a notable {{artist|s}} on her own.
!!Frigyes Karinthy's works:
* ''Capillaria'', a novel
* "Chains", a short story
* ''A Journey Round My Skull'', a novel
* ''Tragedy of the Embryo'', a novel
* The Hungarian translation of ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''
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!! Tropes found across his works:
* CreatorBreakdown: His obscure and borderline-misogynistic satirical novel ''Capillaria'' was written during Karinthy's second marriage. In it, giant sex-crazed women torment and devour a race of phallus-shaped dwarves. It was not a very happy marriage.
* RecursiveReality: {{Parodied}} and {{exaggerated}}.
* RecursiveTranslation: In "This Is How YOU Write", Frigyes Karinthy translates a philosophical poem by one of his contemporaries into German, then back to Hungarian, then repeating the process several times. The first recursive translation turns the poem into a skit featuring the Jews Ufer and Hertz. The second one yields an ad for Hertz Salami.
* {{Woolseyism}}: His CultClassic Hungarian translation of ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' is highly favored over the original for its extensive use of more "colorful" expressions. No, not swearing, but things like using "barked Pooh triumphantly" in place of "said Pooh". Fans of the translated version tend to see the original as uninspired and dry, some even calling it downright annoying.
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