KORABELI ROMÁN KRITIKA A SZÉKELYFÖLD LEÍRÁSÁRÓL
19TH-CENTURY ROMANIAN CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE DESCRIPTION OF SZEKLERLAND BY BALÁZS ORBÁN

Author(s): Árpád Kémenes
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Description of Szeklerland; Balázs Orbán; Romanian periodical Transilvania; Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867;
Summary/Abstract: In 1874, the Romanian periodical Transilvania published two articles that criticized the last volume of Orbán Balázs’s A Székelyföld leírása (Description of Szeklerland) that had just been published. The first part of the present paper expounds on the reception of the volume in Hungarian papers and journals of the period. The second part aims to present the arguments through which the author of the articles (probably George Bariţiu) refutes the parts of Orbán Balázs’s monography that present Romanians in negative terms. The quotations from Orbán’s work provide an insight into the image of Romanians among Hungarians, while the ones taken from the articles show the way Romanians regard Hungarians and themselves. The extracts quoted also reflect on the ethnic relations that had an impact on everyday life between the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and World War I.

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