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...prison, it tells the story of his involvement in the murder of Frederigo and Enrique Salinas.As in his earlier work, Kertész exhibits an understanding of how a distorted and cruel logic arises out of the inhumane. In “Fatelessness,” the young protagonist Gyuri is nostalgic for the “clearer and simpler” life in the concentration camps. In “Detective Story,” the cold and matter-of-fact style in which Kertész relates the sequence of events that lead up to the Salinas?...
George Keller, formerly Hungarian Refugee Gyuri Kolozsdi, gets his big push from Henry Kissinger, who is given enough lines to entitle him to royalties...
...lived in the small Hungarian village of Balatönfokájar since the 16th century. His father Mores left the village in search of opportunities in the grain business and then real estate ("both with very little success," his son recalls); he set himself up in Budapest, where Gyuri (the diminutive of the Hungarian version of George) Solti was born...
...five or six, it was discovered that Gyuri had absolute pitch. That prompted his teachers to send word home that the boy ought to have music lessons. Mores and Momma Theres scraped together enough money for an old piano, and Gyuri went at it with his typically fierce intensity. "I was -and am-a very determined little fellow," says Solti. By the time he was twelve, the prodigy was giving recitals. At 13 he enrolled in the Franz Liszt Academy, Hungary's leading college of music, where he studied with Ernst von Dohnányi and Bela Bart...
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