Game and fight, friendship and betrayal, togetherness and partisanship, victory and death. Tons of books have been published that try to show life's great moments, successes and failures through the fate of a group of children, but only a few have managed to write a lasting novel about it. Ferenc Molnár is one of them.
Game and fight, friendship and betrayal, togetherness and partisanship, victory and death. Tons of books have been published that try to show life's great moments, successes and failures through the fate of a group of children, but only a few have managed to write a lasting novel about it. Ferenc Molnár is one of them. His book has not lost its charm even today, it can be understood and experienced everywhere in the world, it is still fresh and interesting a hundred years after its first publication. It was made into a silent film and a sound film, translated into nearly two dozen languages, and made mandatory or recommended reading in several countries. Its characters, who, like Ferenc Molnár, were born in Budapest's Józsefváros, are now all immortal heroes of youth literature. When we were children, we all wanted to be as brave as Boka, as determined as Nemecsek, and we longed for a place where we could feel at home in the same way as the boys from Pál Street on the ground.