Please Sir! (1916) is one of the first novels of the popular Hungarian author, Frigyes Karinthy (1887 – 1938), which tells his school years with a lot of humor and empathy. Endre Illes wrote: “All Karinthy's writings have the violent, blinding brilliance of a spluttering Christmas sparkler. He wrote several thousand sketches, hundreds of stories, a few novels and two volumes of poetry. He experimented with literary forms and techniques: plays, philosophical studies, anecdotes, reviews, articles. But no matter what he wrote, his message was always as fresh and sensitive as the first flash of the idea which inspired it. One could say that his real medium was the idea, the instant spark.” The work is read here by Pál Mácsai.
