Géza Ottlik

1912–1990 (age 78)

Biography

Géza Ottlik's novels, essays, and translations revealed a mind attuned to moral complexity, most famously in The School at the Frontier, which reflected the tumult of mid-century Central Europe.

Teachers and readers continue to return to his luminous prose, finding guidance in its clarity and empathy as they remember him at Farkasréti Cemetery.

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