Jókai Mór esete a csíki székely krónikával
The Case of Mór Jókai and the Szekler Chronicle

A Story on the Border of Fiction and the Exploration of Facts

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the relationship between historical reality and two novels of the most prolific writer of Hungarian Romanticism, Mór Jókai. In his novel entitled Bálványosvár (The Castle of theIdols), published in 1882, he explores the content of the Szekler chronicle, presenting the early history of the Szeklers, forged in the 18th century, as fact. In the novel A kiskirályok (The Viceroys), published in 1885, he already writes ironically about persons falsifying history for profit and about those deceived by their forgeries. Some hints in this novel suggest that at the time he had already reconsidered the Szekler chronicle as being a forgery also. The article’s author believes that archaeologist-historian Nagy Géza,director of the Székely Nemzeti Múzeum(Székely National Museum) of Sfântu Gheorghe (Sepsiszentgyörgy) might have contributed to this change in attitude sometime between the publishing dates of the two novels.

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