A TOLDI-TRILÓGIA: A ROMÁNC, A TöRTÉNELMI ÉS A VERSES REGÉNY DISKURZUSA
THE TOLDI-TRILOGY: DISCOURSE IN ROMANCE, HISTORICAL AND VERSE NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: The creation of the events in Toldi’s Love (1879) encompassing a period of thirty years are justified by the critics with Arany János’s insistence on loyalty to epic tradition, as well as to the situation created with narrative reflection found in the 12th canto of Toldi, about his private life. The differences in world views between the parts of the trilogy, the image of a “changed world” account for the circumstances why Daliás idők (Heroic Times) (1848) remains fragmentary, and why Toldi’s Love, the second part emerging from it, took so long to be written. Additionally, the lengthy creation of this part was also influenced by genre changes in Hungarian literature of the time (archaicizing and transforming epic world views etc.). The paper looks into the narrative in Toldi’s Love from these aspects of genre changes.

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