Literary historian Endre Bakó’s new book was presented in Debrecen
On Wednesday, December 21, at the literary café in the Art-ka Galéria at 1 Batthyány utca, those interested could get acquainted with the contents of Endre Bakó’s new (now his twentieth!) book. Sándor Erdei, a journalist and “literary writer”, talked to the author from 4:30 p.m.
The latest volume of the literary historian from Debrecen publishes “literary essays”. The topics of the twenty studies: dramas about King István, experience and poetry in the Hungarian poetry of the First World War, the fictional character of Endre Ady in fiction, the literary antecedents of László Németh’s Bolyai dramas, the patriotic (irredenta) poetry of Ákos Dutka, a Bihari martyr, poet: András szemtól against György Faludy, the friendship between László Németh and Lőrinc Szabó, the friendship between Gyula Illyés and Lajos Zilahy, the relationship between István Sinka and Péter Veres, “war anthologies” (a reading of a Babits poem), the myth of matter (about Lőrinc Szabó’s world view), a romantic Debrecen -failure of vision, about József Erdélyi (was he a great poet or was he a poet at all), Endre Medvigy’s book about István Sinka, Ferenc Pákozdy, the poet of the Black Poems, the “testament” of Ferenc Kölcsey, the language-cultivator János Arany, features of Ádám Niklai’s portrait, a look at Júlia Barna’s poetic world.
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