Otherwise I am a Hungarian poet

In the book Otherwise I am a Hungarian poet, the reader finds Miklós Radnóti's correspondence with his contemporaries. Who were your contemporaries? Friends, family, poets, editors, critics, lovers. Through the collected letters, we can trace the life of Miklós Radnóti from 1926, from the cloudless joking of adolescent correspondence with his family in Transylvania to his farewell to the last labor service. The artistic career of a decade and a half unfolds before us: that of the Hungarian poet moving in an ever-narrower literary space. We can witness your court case, gain insight into your university studies, get reports on vacations, and report on employment services. Letters born in emotional disturbances were included: the messages of the Teen who chased Radnót from Reichenberg with his love, as well as the confessions of real passion he had experienced with Judit Beck. And above all, for his own poems, his own poetry, a poet who takes a pen and writes a letter speaks in the book. Sometimes gently, sometimes self-consciously, sometimes formally, sometimes emotionally, not once in secret. A significant part of Miklós Radnóti's correspondence was destroyed in the spring of 1945. What has survived in the legacy and what could have been collected can be read here. Until now, Radnóti's lines were usually read only by their addressees, and only those he wrote to him. Now, however, the reader can also see the poet’s life from a new perspective. For the first time, a significant portion of the letters in the volume are published.