MIHAIL SADOVEANU AND KÓS KÁROLY. LITERARY INTERFERENCES
MIHAIL SADOVEANU AND KÓS KÁROLY. LITERARY INTERFERENCES

Summary/Abstract: In this article we aim to present an intriguing literary parallelism between the prose of the Romanian novelist Mihail Sadoveanu and that of the Hungarian writer Kós Károly. We have in mind the topic of history in the writings of the two authors, namely Sadoveanu’s Fraţii Jderi/The Jder family, and Kós’s A Varjú nemzetség/The Varju family, translated into Romanian by Aurel Buteanu and Paul Drumaru. Amongs the most important common elements, motifs and themes between these historical novels we mention the obsession for the mountain and higher lands, the mountain as the space of inner freedom, the special human type of the mountaineer, the intertwinning between the course of history and human destinies.

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