Book description
My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful
autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing
Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy
journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but merely a cursory asylum.
When the French capitulate to the Nazis, Faludy travels to North Africa,
then on to America, where he volunteers for military service. Missing
his homeland and determined to do the right thing, he returns ? only to
be imprisoned, tortured, and slowly starved, eventually becoming one of
only twenty-one survivors of his camp. A man whose moral compass in
all the great questions of the twentieth century has never deviated from
the correct direction, no matter what the cost to himself Gy rgy
Faludy (1910-2006) was raised and died in Hungary but spent much of his
long life in various forms of exile. A poet and translator, Faludy was
imprisoned by the Communist authorities in post-war Hungary where he was
subjected to the most terrible treatment.
My Happy Days in Hell
takes these experiences and makes them into an extraordinary and highly
enjoyable work of art.
