POLSKA W ZAPISACH DZIENNIKOWYCH SÁNDORA MÁRAIEGO
POLAND IN SÁNDOR MÁRAI’S DIARY ENTRIES

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to answer the question to what extent the 20th-century Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, who accurately assessed the political situation in post-war Europe, viewing it from a distance as an emigrant, was interested in Poland, whether he knew Polish literature, what knowledge he had of the freedom aspirations of Poles, and whether he noticed affinity of the fate of the Hungarian and the Polish notion. Given the author's scarce journal entries devoted to these themes, I conclude that, despite the terseness of these observations, they are insightful and accurate. Seeing the collapse of Europe, which was emulating negative American models, Márai views in- difference to Poland’s fate resulting from the selfish policy of the great powers, comparing the situation of Poles in 1981 to that of Hungarians in October 1956.

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