Petőfi-mirages #1: Petőfi’s Political Memory from Dualism to the Present Day

PETŐFI-MIRAGES. Program series at the Blinken OSA Archivumban, March 22, 2023.

Petőfi politikai emlékezete a dualizmustól napjainkig. Beszélgetés és felolvasás.

Would Petőfi have said hurrah to Franz Joseph after the Reunification, as Mór Jókai imagined? Was he a socialist or a nationalist and Christian? Was Petőfi a Communist? The discussion, interspersed with readings, traces how successive political courses tried to mold Petőfi in their own image.

Participants:

• István Margócsy, literary historian
• Péter Csunderlik, historian

Moderated by: András Mink

Gergely Váradi and Janka Veszelovszki will read the selected excerpts

The language of the podcast is Hungarian.