Чеховите герои в съвременната унгарска поезия
Chekhov’s protagonists in contemporary Hungarian poetry

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the “traces“ of Chekhov’s legacy available in contemporary Hungarian poetry. There are four contemporary Transylvanian poets in the center of our attention, including Csaba Lászlóffy (1939–2015), László Király (1943–), Ferenc András Kovács (1959–) and Edgár László Varga (1985–), whose individual lyrical texts are in an intertextual relationship with the works of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The dialogue between the poems written by these Hungarian poets in Romania and the dramatic plays created by Chekhov is most often implemented in the form of mystification or a mask lyric. However, getting in contact with the textual domain of Chekhov also contributes to the process of establishing a dialogue between the Transylvanian poets listed above. Thus, the classic Russian tradition becomes a kind of “common language“ for these poets, whose poetic realms address one another through the references to the motifs, characters and topics of the Russian writer and playwright.

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