Köznemesi tradíció, művészi élményszerzés és jövőorientált múltkonstruálás Jókai Mór hazai utazási prózájában – az 1853-as erdélyi Uti levelek tükrében
Noble Tradition, Artistic Experience, and the Future-Oriented Construction of the Past in Mór Jókai’s Hungarian Travel Prose: The Case of the Transylvanian Travel Letters (1853)

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the literary record of Mór Jókai’s first journey to Transylvania, the Transylvanian Travel Letters (1853), in order to identify the narrative strategies through which he articulates a future-oriented construction of the past in the 1850s, and to reconstruct the value system underlying his landscape descriptions. It interprets Jókai’s travel journalism in Hungary and Transylvania both as a form of artistic travel (an inspirational journey) and as a reconfigured social practice of kinship visitation, while also addressing the medial and poetic dimensions of his travel prose. The analysis further demonstrates how Transylvanian culture and mentality – represented as archaic and tradition-bound – are elevated in Jókai’s prose to a normative model of conscious adherence to tradition for the Hungarian intelligentsia.

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