Hatvany Lajos Petőfi-képei
Lajos Hatvany’s Images of Sándor Petőfi

Summary/Abstract: Lajos Hatvany considered his work Így élt Petőfi (Thus Lived Petőfi) the main endeavour of his life. In this piece, he compiled the recollections of Petőfi’s contemporaries and, supplemented with his own notes, he recreated Sándor Petőfi, whose image, according to Hatvany, had faded by the 1950s, with only a few outlines accessible and known in fragments rather than in their entirety, both in terms of the person and his oeuvre. Hatvany created, wrote, or rewrote a Sándor Petőfi who had some connections to the person who lived in the first half of the 19th century, but the actual figure and the revolutionary poet subordinated to Hatvany’s literary and socio-political aims do not overlap in every detail. This study examines where and by what methods Lajos Hatvany intervenes in the perpetuation of Petőfi’s image.

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