French Literature and Poetry
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This paper, an excerpt from my forthcoming monograph on contemporary Hungarian elegy, explores the Baudelairean and Rilkean roots of the genre. Drawing on French modernism, I examine the Hungarian reception of Baudelaire from the perspective of lyric poetry and genre history. This approach is reflected both in the theoretical introductory chapter—focusing on the elegy, anti-elegy, self-elegy, and the elegiac-ironic modality—and in the historical-poetic overview, which traces his reception from its beginnings to contemporary adaptations. My research in this field was the first to introduce the concept of the ‘elegiac-ironic modality’, tracing its historical roots back, among other sources, to Baudelaire’s notion of spleen. A central focus of this study is the transmission of Baudelairean elegy into Hungarian lyric poetry, a question investigated here through the work of János Pilinszky, one of the foremost poets of Hungarian modernism.
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@article{Szvai2026Elegy,
title = {«Elegy Here and Beyond». Genres, Canons, and Lyric Variations in Central European Modern and Contemporary Poetry through János Pilinszky’s Œuvre},
author = {Dorottya Szávai},
journal = {Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.6093/1826-753x/13994},
url = {https://doi.org/10.6093/1826-753x/13994}
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