Ady Endre és a magyar modernitás
Endre Ady and the Hungarian Modernity

Summary/Abstract: Endre Ady (1877–1919) was a turn-of-the-century poet, journalist, and the leading figure of Hungarian modernisation. He was noted for his streadfast belief in social progress and development and for his poetry’s exploration of fundamental questions of the modern European perception: love, temporality, faith, individuality and patriotism. Ady belonged to an impoverished Calvinist noble family, but his social and cultural experience connects him to a radically critical and “urban” ideology. On the other hand, Ady, all the time, remained loyal to the despoiled, humiliated villagers and rural Hungary. Ady’s mentality was characterized with an aching incompatibility between his civic and ethnic motivational basis. He had surely hoped that the ideology of triumphant modernity reconciles them. This conception penetrated his ideatic orientation and publicistical activity, his everyday life and poetry.

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