The Diary of Geza Csath - Softcover

Geza Csath

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Synopsis

An acclaimed neurologist widely viewed as Hungary's first contemporary author, Geza Csath was also a morphine addict who shot and killed his wife before killing himself. The diary begins as a clinically graphic depiction of Csath's conquest of dozens of women - from chambermaids to aristocrats - during his tenure as a doctor at a Slovakian health spa in 1912.

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"In the course of just one day, I live five thousand years... Start smoking opium as a strong, mature man and... you can reach the age of twenty million." - Opium (Short story by Geza Csath), 1909.

"100 years (of opium addiction) aren't worth as much as 34 (sober), with their real, true pleasures." - Csath's diary entry, 1913.

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