György. Der Bettel-Dichter als Rechtsfreund, und die Gerichts-Pflege des Unterreichs; oder die jüngste Vekündigung, und die Verthiedigung eines angeblichenNarren. Erster Theil [ all published ].

by ILLINY

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Deviant Literature ILLINY, György. Der Bettel-Dichter als Rechtsfreund, und die Gerichts-Pflege des Unterreichs; oder die jüngste Vekündigung, und die Verthiedigung eines angeblichenNarren. Erster Theil [ all published ]. Miskolcz: gedruckt bei Ludwig Tóth v. Csögle. 1845. 8vo. Uncut and largely unopened in later Hungarian marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in; pp. 99; wrappers a bit dusty and with one small hole; title-verso with carefully removed 19th-century collector's stamp, otherwise a very good copy of an almost unrecorded publication. First edition. The Beggar-Poet as Legal Assistant and the Legal System of the Nether World was written by a mentally deranged messianic Hungarian author, who at the time lived in the North-Eastern Hungarian town of Miskolc. This play, which contains Hungarian verses, although largely written in German, opens with a scene of social realism: An impoverished merchant and poet in his only room with his four children is having breakfast. Other scenes are situated in prison, a hotel, or at a law court 32 in hell, the fantastic and realistic are mingling, a mockery of authoritarian politics and the liberating foreshadow of free-roaming creativity are alternating in this sequence of scenes, which ought to be tried out on the stage. The final scene, entitled The provisional Victory of the persecuted Innocence is a relentless celebration of Hungarian independence with twelve men and women singing a patriotic hymn, whilst the bad guys,

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