Literatura non fiction nad Dunajem. Recepcja wybranych polskich utworów na Węgrzech
Non-fiction Literature on the Danube. Reception of Selected Polish Works in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The article presents selected issues related to non-fiction literature in Hungary and the reception of some Polish works. In Hungarian culture, non-fiction literature has not gained its proper position to this day and, in a sense, it is considered a marginal work that does not have a permanent place in the national canon. It is consistently omitted in new historical and literary studies and there is a lack of continuity in the presentation of this achievement. This genre gained some notoriety and popularity in the 1930s thanks to the sociographic trend of the Hungarian prose represented by Gyula Illyés. However, since the second half of the 20th century, for example, the father of a Hungarian reportage, Árpád Pásztor, has belonged to the circle of forgotten writers, although at the beginning of the 20th century, as a correspondent of capital magazines, he sent reports from various countries of the world. Literary scholars have also forgotten about György Moldov, who died in 2022, and was considered the most famous and popular author of non-fiction literature during the period of real socialism. Many outstanding Polish non-fiction texts, e.g. Ryszard Kapuściński’s, were able to fill a certain gap in the Hungarian culture thanks to Hungarian Polish translators involved in Polish culture. The most interesting non-fiction titles from the point of view of the Hungarian culture recently include books by Andrzej Stasiuk, Ziemowit Szczerek and Krzysztof Varga.

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