Pakocs (Pakots1) Károly. Az írói életmű és az alkotó személyisége kutatásának és értékelésének néhány kérdése és szempontja
Pakocs (Pakots) Károly Questions and Viewpoints Regarding the Research of the Poet-Writer’s Life-work and his Personality

Summary/Abstract: The study sketches out the poet-writer Pakocs Károly’s life-work written between 1924 and 1946. (He was born in Nagykároly, on 17th November, 1892 and died in Bucharest, on 23rd October, 1966.) The study raises two important questions which could help the literary historian in the analysis of Pakocs’s prolifi c oeuvre – both as a writer and a poet (7 volumes of poems, 3 volumes of short stories, 2 novels, an experiment on playwriting, volumes of literary translations, editor). These questions suggest that the poet-writer’s historical background, public life and political manifestations need to be approached from an objective point of view: The literary historian dealing with these works 1) has to fi nd the place of Pakocs Károly’s poetry, prose fi ction and religious writings in Hungarian literature, as well as in the Catholic and religious-ideological literature. 2) He has to show the literary value of Pakocs’s two memoirs, and in the case of the one with ecclesiastical concerns he has to answer the question whether or not it has relevant (historical) source-value. As far as the fi rst question is concerned, the writer draws our attention to the fact that literary historians and critics who undertake the analysis and reinterpretation of Pakocs Károly’s literary works and that of the development of his poetry, have to be attentive to questions of different concerns: theory of literature, aesthetics and psychology of creative powers have to be the new viewpoints in this respect, which in Pakocs’s time were not paid the appropriate amount of attention to. This way the question of literary reception and that of the connections of the poet-writer to the literary trends of his age become unavoidable. According to the study the revelation of the inner psychic problems and confl icts which made the poet-writer create, is of utmost importance. Pakocs wrote his two memoirs in his haracteristically readable style after his fi rst imprisonment. According to the study these works are sources of valuable information about the poet’s personality, way of thinking and ambitions. What is more, it serves with important fact-data for the experts of stylistics, text linguistics, communication theory and psychology.

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