Teacher, please

Please, Teacher, is one of Karinthy’s most significant works, dating from his early writing era. A scratched garland made in detail, like this is how you write. It has been an unchanging beauty for its new and new generation of adults and young people since its first appearance. The basic mood of the volume is filled with the sweet sad nostalgia of the Introduction. The writer returns to childhood by reversing the order of imagination and reality. The scratches bring to life what is mood and humor and memory and beautiful youth in school: the restrained laughter of the big teases (the class laughs), the enthusiastic, childish dreams of adolescence (Hanging on the line), the girls looking through the eyes of teenagers (The girls) and the science that promises miracles (I will experiment). The other layer of the volume is related to This is How You Write: the bravura of style introduces everyone to the eternal human typicality of the response and dissertation of the good student and the bad student, the charming clumsiness of the student diary. The law of the genre brings out the magic tricks of brevity and concise characterization from Carinthia, bringing to life its figures and situations in one or two sentences: the "fallen man" and the teacher who failed, the late, the textbook scramble, the certificate psychology of childhood lies. The volume, like the street boy of Molnár: Pál, or Milne: Pooh, belongs to the rare layer of world literature that adults and children enjoy with equal enjoyment, and those who have read it as a child are happy to read it again as an adult.