SANDS AT EIGHTY - A personal tribute to Ferenc Mádl, on his 80th birthday
SANDS AT EIGHTY - A personal tribute to Ferenc Mádl, on his 80th birthday

Summary/Abstract: In one of the rare moments when Ferenc Mádl spoke of the important influences in his life – perhaps in the biographical film made in the summer of 2000 – he mentioned that in his childhood he could see on the beam in his parents’ house a row of books his family considered important. Among those few volumes – for buying books at the time was by no means an everyday affair – alongside the Bible and the classics of Hungarian literature there was a volume of the poetry of Walt Whitman in English. But how did an American edition of poetry by Walt Whitman find its way in the 1930s to a peasant house in Bánd or Szentkirályszabadja?

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