Jurnalul unui „patrician”
A „Patrician’s” Diary

Summary/Abstract: This study offers a reading of the Journal of Sándor Márai, a Hungarian author less known by the Romanian public. The study focuses on a paradox previously noted by other commentators and translators of his works: although Márai’s work is almost entirely autobiographical (some of his prose writings even employ the form of personal diary of letters), many details of the author’s biography, particularly during his exile, are still unknown. At first, this may seem like an aporia, but when we consider the entirety of his novels, together with the Journal, we can see that the biography was almost always transformed either in to fiction or into essays, teachings or poetry. The Journal is only partly personal – its apparently random notes (dictated by personal whims or the reality unfolding around him) constitute a form of “teachings” for himself and others.

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