Dorottya Szávai

«Elegy Here and Beyond». Genres, Canons, and Lyric Variations in Central European Modern and Contemporary Poetry through János Pilinszky’s Œuvre

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. Thi...