Dr Ján Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé (12 February 1866, in
Dolný Kubín – 2 July 1940, in Dolný Kubín) was a
Slovak writer, literary critic and doctor.
Life
He was born into a lawyer's family in Dolný Kubín, and studied in
Kežmarok,
Ružomberok,
Gyöngyös and
Levoča. After leaving exams in Levoča he started to study medicine in
Prague
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. He planned to leave for
Cleveland
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in the
United States
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, however, family problems changed his plans. He settled as a doctor in Dolný Kubín, where, with the exception of 1924–25, when he lived in
Bratislava
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, lived his almost whole life. Jégé died in 1940 due to
heart attack
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.
Works
He started writing during his studies in Prague. At that time, he was a member of the Detvan association, which supported his literary activities. Under the pseudonym Ján Grob (from initials comes his pseudonym Jégé) he wrote several sketches and one novella. Most of his works, however, come from the 1930s and particularly 1920s, when he wrote his best works.
* 1897 - ''Pomsta'' ("Revenge"), tale
* 1889 - ''Výhody spoločenského života'' ("Advantages of the social life"), novella
* 1922 - ''Wieniawského legenda'' ("
Wieniawski's legend"), historical novel
* 1923 - ''Adam Šangala'', historical novel
* 1925 - ''Krpčeky sv. Floriána'' ("St. Florian's little boots"), drama
* 1925 - ''Mia'', drama
* 1925 - ''Kuruci'', ("
Kuruc"), novella
* 1926 - ''Magister rytier Donč'' ("Knight Donč the Magister"), novella
* 1926 - ''Horymír'', novella
* 1928 - ''Svätopluk'', novel
* 1930 - ''Cesta životom'' ("A way through the life"), autobiographical work
* 1931 - ''Itália'' ("Italy"), collection of novellas
* 1931 - ''Kozinský mlyn'' ("Mill of Kozin"), novella
* 1932 - ''Alina Orságová'', novel
* 1934 - ''Medzi nimi'' ("Between them"), collection of novellas
* 1937 - ''S duchom času'' ("With the spirit of time/
Zeitgeist"), novel
References
*Peter Petro
History of Slovak Literature.McGill-Queens University Press, 1997. ; pp. 121–123
External links
Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadasi-Jege, Ladislav
1866 births
1940 deaths
Slovak writers
People from Dolný Kubín
Writers from Austria-Hungary