Private Life
Karinthy was married twice. He married the actress Etel Judik in 1913. The marriage was serene and happy and they had a son called Gábor. Tragically, Etel died very young during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919. In 1920, he married the psychiatrist Aranka Böhm, with whom he had another son, the writer Ferenc Karinthy. Although he did not speak the language, Karinthy was an ardent supporter of Esperanto, attending Esperanto congresses, and even became president of the Hungarian Esperanto Society in 1932.
He is well known for his dry sense of humor, as he himself noted: "In humor I know no jokes." Just one example for it was his advertising slogan for his book Journey Round my Skull: The Newest Novel of the Famed Tumorist.
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