Canards, feuilles volantes et livres colportés en Hongrie au 18e siecle
Trash fictions, newspapers and pamphlets in Hungary of 18th century

Summary/Abstract: Trash fictions, newspapers and pamphlets played an increasingly important role in Hungary in the XVIIIth century. It could also be considered the predecessor of current mass media. The extremely colourful and exciting literature, stemming from multiple sources, is simply bounderless. Its history and analyses goes along with a number of paradoxes. Literary history has treated it as taboo for a long time. From a number of reprinted editions of fine historic inspired by Boccaccio to anecdotes published in the almanacs and to the most recent death penalties trash fiction allows insight into the day-to-day as well as biggest problems of an era. From its character we can draw conclusions as to the needs of the reading population comprising many different social strata. Why and to what extent was one of the women educating pieces of Erasmus dialogues so popular in Hungary? What is message of highwaymen (betyar) histories? The study tries to answer to these questions.

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