Romhányi Török Gábor

He was born on 16 May 1945 in Szombathely. He graduated from the Szombathely Higher Teacher Training Institute in 1968, majoring in Folk Art/Library.

He has been a regular literary translator since the early 1980s. Since 1993 his translations have been published under the name Gábor Romhányi Török.

He was awarded the French State, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2002. In 2014 he was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.

I am looking for the Philosopher’s Stone. I think it is the book that makes most other books superfluous, that displaces them. Beckett, Nietzsche and Foucault are such authors. I would like to know what I am doing in a world into which I have arrived for a relatively short time, not of my own free will, and which I am about to leave. Forever. I am looking for the book that will forever put the question to rest: what is life really worth? With which I will overcome my anxiety, my fear of death, my fear of eternal annihilation. This is the work I would like to discuss, the message I would like to convey to all those who have “ears to hear.”

His most important translations

Samuel Beckett

• Molloy – Malone dies – The Unnamable, Magvető, 1987 (World Library)
• Molloy, 2nd edition Szeged, Szukits, 1999. (Modern Classics)
• Molloy – Malone dies – The Unnameable, Europe, 2006 Centenary Edition
• John Calder: The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett, Europe, 2006 (Libra)
• I Dream of Reasonably Good Women, novel, Orpheus, 2001
• Hugh Kenner: Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: the stoic comedians, Crater, 2006
• Mercier and Camier, Tomorrow, 1993
• How is it, Tomorrow, 2007

Michel Foucault

• The fantastic library (Selected studies, lectures and interviews) Pallas-Attractor, 1998
• Blandine Kriegel: Michel Foucault – today – Holnap, 2007
• Words and things, Osiris, 2000
• Mental illness and psychology, Corvina, 2000
• The birth of clinical thinking, Corvina, 2000

Friedrich Nietzsche

• The Wanderer and his Shadow (Schopenhauer as Educator and a selection from the collection of aphorisms from the Too Human to be Human), Göncöl Publishers, 1990. 360 pp.
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Reassessment of Values, Holnap Publishers, (170.p.), 1994. 1995. 1998, three editions (with preface)
• Friedrich Nietzsche: The joyful science, (with afterword) Tomorrow, 1997
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Addendum to the Genealogy of Morals, Holnap, 1996
• Current date, Tomorrow, 2000
• Human – too human, Szukits, 2000
• The case of Wagner and Schopenhauer as educator, Tomorrow, 2001
• The will to power, Carthaphilus, 2002
• Twilight of the idols and Nietzsche versus Wagner. Tomorrow, 2004
• Nietzsche: The case of WAGNER and SCHOPENHAUER as educator, HOLNAP, 2001
• J. Köhler: Nietzsche’s Last Dream, novel – Tomorrow, 2004
• J. Köhler: Friedrich Nietzsche and Cosima Wagner – Holnap, 2005
• Klaus Goch: Nietzsche on women, Tomorrow, 2006.
• Selected letters of Friedrich Nietzsche, Holnap, 2008.
• Nietzsche: Virradat 2nd ed. Tomorrow, 2009