Meditáció Ady újraolvasásának esélyeiről
Meditation on chances of the re-reading of Ady

Summary/Abstract: During his life in the beginning of the twentieth century, and still decades afterwards, the figure and the poetry of Endre Ady had been extremely significant. It condensed the destiny of a whole generation, maybe even a whole nation, from decadence and rebellion to the apocalyptic threat of its disappearance. This huge significance provoked, a contrario, a lack of interest, and even a rejection from more recent periods, less receptive to a poetry which had a universal vocation, therefore tending to be hypertrophied and heterogeneous. Nowadays, we are far distant enough from yesterday’s heartrending historical conflicts, and not imprisoned anymore by the ideal of the homogenous and perfect work of art, and it’s about time (find better expression) to rediscover his work: Ady created, through a creative adaptation of his great inspirers (among them Baudelaire and Nietzsche), a poetical imaginary, which is one of the most powerful and the most luxuriant Hungarian poetry ever experienced.

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