THE PERSONAL BEHIND THE CANON

On the Limits of the Ideological Concepts of Aesthetics

Abstract

Political influence on Hungarian art and literature has re-inforced since 2010. System of National Cooperation tend to exercise hegemonic power in all area of economy, media and culture. Recently, a series of articles has published in the government-associated newspaper Magyar Idők which suggests the restriction of theso-calledleft-wing/liberal art and literature in Hungarian culture, including the rethinking of the modern canon, e.g. setting a low value on Péter Esterházy. The naivety of this effort is obvious for those who have the slightest acknowledge concerning canonization, literary field and discourse analysis – or simply run through the diaries and memoirs of some central figures of theHungarian cultural establishment during the decades of socialism. Such examples as that of István Király’s and Pál Réz’s show that the personality, and the personal relations are just as important constituents of literature and canon a stheofficial demands and restrictions.