The exhibition shows each of the phases of Márai?s life with the help of a characteristic phrase or longer text.
After the opening of the exhibition, the centre screened Eszter?s Heritage, a film by director József Sipos based on Márai?s novel of the same name.
Márai was born in Kassa in 1900, when the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly anti-fascist, he survived the Second World War, but persecution by the Communists drove him away from the country in 1948, first to Italy and then to the United States. Márai committed suicide in San Diego in 1989, never knowing about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the restoration of democracy to Central Europe. He is the author of over twenty books. Embers was the first to be translated into English.
Photo: Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels, Miklós Szörényi
