Get it in the canon! (An interview by József Takáts) Cover Image

Be a kánonba! (Takáts József beszélgetése)
Get it in the canon! (An interview by József Takáts)

Author(s): László Szilasi, József Takáts
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Jelenkor Alapítvány
Keywords: hungarian literature; Jókai; Petőfi; nineteenth century; history of literature; canon; image

Summary/Abstract: László Szilasi critic, literary historian studies old and nineteenth-century Hungarian literature, as well as contemporary authors. In the interview he mentions the gap between the readers’ expectations of the period and today, the formation of the writer’s image in nineteenth-century Hungarian literature (through examples by authors like Jókai or Petőfi), and the changes in the canons of history of literature.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 799-804
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Hungarian