Géza Csáth was a famous Hungarian novolist writing such works as Little Emma and Witman fiúk (The Whitman Boys) amoung others. Csáth was also a music critic who wrote of Bartók and Kodály, and a neurologist at a prestigious Budapest research clinic. Around 1909 he began smoking opium and became addicted to morphine and pantopon. He became lonely and extremly depressed as he watched his body be distroyed by drug addiction. He slowly slipped into insanity and was commited to an insane asylum. In the summer of 1919 Csáth escaped from the asylum and went into hiding. On September 11, 1919 Géza Csáth swallowed poison and commited suicide at his home in Szabadka Hungary.
Géza Csáth was a famous Hungarian novolist writing such works as Little Emma and Witman fiúk (The Whitman Boys) amoung others. Csáth was also a music critic who wrote of Bartók and Kodály, and a neurologist at a prestigious Budapest research clinic. Around 1909 he began smoking opium and became addicted to morphine and pantopon. He became lonely and extremly depressed as he watched his body be distroyed by drug addiction. He slowly slipped into insanity and was commited to an insane asylum. In the summer of 1919 Csáth escaped from the asylum and went into hiding. On September 11, 1919 Géza Csáth swallowed poison and commited suicide at his home in Szabadka Hungary.
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