Literary Journal 2017/3. János Arany

The editors of the János Arany memorial issue of Literary Journal focus on the genius of the poet with a synthesis of the landmarks of his career and the most significant results of his creativity. Classical and contemporary essays analyze the relations of the oeuvre with world and Hungarian literature, highlight new correspondences in Arany’s most popular works, and present the less known parts of his universe. The memorial issue offers insight into the years of the poet as an actor, a teacher and an official of the Academy of Sciences, and analyses the main features of Arany’s thinking and poetry enumerating the variants of his works characterized by folklore, comedy, melancholy and irony. The quotations, texts and essay fragments of the poet that illustrate the topics reveal further details of the significance of János Arany, an illustrious model for all the Hungarian authors that followed.