Jokai

[yaw-koi]

noun

1. Maurus or Mór 1825–1904, Hungarian novelist.

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Foldes and his family hid with hundreds of others in an apartment building on Budapest's Jokai Street under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews and later vanished while in Soviet custody.

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Foldes returned to Jokai Street with his mother, grew up and became a pediatrician.

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Jókai, luckier than Dumas, had no need to invent his episodes, though he frequently presents them in a romantic environment.

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Romantic it is, no doubt, in treatment as well as in subject, but a really good romance never grows old, and Jókai's unfailing humour is always—at least, in his masterpieces—a sufficient corrective of the excessive sensibility to which, like all the romanticists, he is, by temperament, sometimes liable.

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Maurice Jokai always uses violet ink, to which he is so accustomed that he becomes perplexed when compelled, outside of his own house, to resort to ink of another colour.

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