Recitativ / az Babits Mihály. - Nyugat: Szépirodalmi szemle, [1972]. - 131 p.; 56x40 mm. - ISBN 9631510107Dark green, leather-textured material, with gilt titling, border, blindstamped price on back cover; color-printed, design dustjacket. Miniature reproduction of the edition of 1916.
Mihály Babits, (1883 - 1941) was a Hungarian poet and journalist. After his study - Hungarian, Latin and French with a particular interest in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietsche - at the Budapest University he worked as a teacher in Szeged and Budapest and was editor of the Nyugat Magazine.In 1934 he wrote a standard book on West European Literature (Az Európai irodalom történette). He was also one of the most important literary translators of Hungary; a.o. Sophokles, Goethe, Shakespeare and Baudelaire. His most outstanding work is the complete translation of Dantes Divina Comedia in 1940.
