Frigyes Karinthy

Frigyes Karinthy was born in Budapest on 25 June 1887, into a family of Jewish origin that had converted to Lutheranism shortly before his birth. As a child he wrote tirelessly and kept a diary; at fifteen, a magazine serialised his first novel. He attended courses in mathematics and physics without taking a degree, then became famous in 1912 with a collection of parodies of his fellow writers. A short story of 1929 sets out the idea of six degrees of separation. Father of the poet Gábor and of the writer Ferenc Karinthy, he died in Siófok on 29 August 1938.

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• NarrativeA Journey Round My SkullUtazás a koponyám körülFrigyes Karinthy · 1937Literature