Voltaire és Fekete János gróf levelezése. Kritikai rekonstrukció
Voltaire’s Correspondence with Count János Fekete. An Attempt for Critical Reconstruction

Summary/Abstract: The work focuses on Voltaire’s correspondence with János Fekete, one of the Hungarian translators of some of Voltaire’s poetic works. On the basis of the critical edition of Voltaire’s correspondence, Fekete’s book Mes Rapsodies (1786) which contains most of the texts, and also of other literary sources, the chronological order of these letters, some of which have not been dated, is established. The correspondence covers a period of two years, 1767-1769, and counts 16 letters. Apart from this chronology, it is shown that some texts sent by Voltaire to Count Fekete were sent a decade later to Prince Byeloselsky, and the critical edition published in the 20th-21st century refers only to Byeloselsky. The work also thematizes the fact that Fekete requested from Voltaire the criticism of his poems, which was achieved through a long prosody lesson. The importance of evaluating these letters together with the attached texts (poems, short stories, pamphlets) is also stated.

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