My First Annotation! The Frontier Garrison by Jenő Rejtő

 Hello Everyone!

My first annotation is posted here for everyone to review! The novel is The Frontier Garrison, an adventure and mystery novel by Hungarian author Jenő Rejtő, under the pseudonym P. Howard. 

Rejtő (1905-1943) took to traveling Europe extensively in his youth during the interwar period between WWI and WWII, which would go on to inform his stage plays and written works like Garrison which often featured (and parodied) the French Foreign Legion and their adventurous explorations abroad. His actually enlisting and joining in the Legion is unconfirmed thus far. 

Tragically, as the Kingdom of Hungary had allied itself with the Axis powers during the Second World War, Rejtő, having Jewish heritage, took to the pen name P. Howard in order to hide his identity to publish his works. In time he would be outed, and sent via "compulsory service" of Jewish men to forced labor on the advancing eastern front into the Soviet Union, where his life would end in 1943 due to illness, exhaustion and exposure.

 It was a pleasure to know the life and the humor of this person in his work, and I'm glad to be able to share it with you all!



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