Tibor Dery

Tibor Déry (October 18, 1894, Budapest - August 18, 1977, Budapest). Hungarian writer. After his surrealist and Dadaist beginnings, he wrote postwar works of corrosive realism and in 1957 was sentenced to prison for opposing socialist realism and the bureaucratic system. He was amnestied in 1960.

Work

• The unfinished sentence (1947, A befejezetlen mondat)
• The answer
• A strange burial
• Niki, the story of a dog (1956); Niki, egy kutya története), Projection, 1961
• The circus
• Monsieur G.A. in X (1966, GA úr X-ben), Caralt, 1970
• The excommunicator (1967; ')
• Hell Games (Elbeszélések), Caralt, 1963
• Imaginary report of an American pop festival (1971; Képzelt riport egy amerikai pop-fesztiválról)
• Cher Beau-Père (1973)
• Dear father-in-law (1973; Kedves Bopeer...!), Noguer, 1976
• The account setting, Sergio Pitol Collection. Translator (Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana, 2007)