Pilinszky János a digitális térben
János Pilinszky in the digital space

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to demonstrate the philological and textual opportunities of Pilinszky’s poetry in the online field. The lifework of Pilinszky is not considered among the largest oeuvres. In spite of this, there are no critical editions of the Pilinszky—poems yet. Nevertheless, everything is ready for a full-scope critical edition; the philological research has revealed the whole life of Janos Pilinszky. Due to Pilinszky’s diverse reception and the improvement of text encoding and data representation, literary studies nowadays have a great opportunity to execute this textual task in the world of the digital studies as well. This essay attempts to recommend a modern and forward—looking way to create the aforementioned Pilinszky—critical edition. So the essay tries to prove that there is a great potential in the literary database, which can be also useful in practical research, even considering the post-modern period. The main aim of the approach is to show that nowadays the academic studies and the world of computers are getting closer and closer to each other.

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