A magyarvalkói templom és parókia kisvilága Jékely Zoltán életművében = The Small World of the Parish of Magyarvalkó in the oeuvre of Zoltán Jékely

Petrőczi, Éva (2024) A magyarvalkói templom és parókia kisvilága Jékely Zoltán életművében = The Small World of the Parish of Magyarvalkó in the oeuvre of Zoltán Jékely. HAGYOMÁNY IDENTITÁS TÖRTÉNELEM, 1 (1). pp. 207-215. ISSN 3004-2992

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Abstract

Zoltán Jékely, poet, essayist, novelist and literary translator, son of the poet Lajos Áprily, spent the summers of 1933-1936 in Magyarvalkó, in Transylvania, as a guest of his uncle, the local pastor, and his aunt, the famous embroiderer. Numerous Jékely writings document these summers, the daily life and the holy events of the parish of Magyarvalkó. In my paper, I intend to analyse the novel “Medardus”, published in 1936, and especially its holy supper-episode. I will also comment on Jékely’s essay “The Confession of the Death Record”, in which the poet, like his self-styled double in the novel, Iván Tenger, becomes familiar with the death records of the two Reverends Miháltz, father and son, and is amazed by the personal voice of these two noble souls. Analysing the relationship between Magyarvalkó and Jékely, I have also used a study by Lujza Tari, a professor at the Academy of Music. The comparative part of my investigation presents some parallels between “Medárdus” and Pál Szabó’s novel “Priests, Sundays”. Finally, I will present two Jékely-poems evoking Magyarvalkó, which can easily be related to the world-famous American poet Edgar Lee Masters’ poetic cycle “The Spoon River Anthology”.

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