"Why don't I be fair!"

The study volume of Péter Sárközy, professor of the Hungarian Department of the University of Rome, published in 1996 and 2001, was a great success among the larger readership. These studies broke with the "official" picture of József Attila. In the early 1990s, the author sequentially listed the legends of the poet's life and the lies he had affixed to his oeuvre: the family, the "heroic proletarian" youth, the non-existent Horger affair, the three existing Baumgarten awards, the alleged friends and the poet's true great loves, his illness, his so-called "Freudism," and his tragic connection to the communist movement, which ended in the poet's "fascistism," excommunication, and tragic death in 1932. Sárközy shows that these "legends" were superimposed on Attila József's oeuvre like guano in his poem, and still make it impossible to understand Attila József's mature poetry, which appeared simultaneously with European existentialism after 1932 and touched it in many respects. In addition to the studies published in 1996, the current volume publishes Péter Sárközy's new studies by Attila József between 1996 and 2015, in which he discusses the one-sided setting of József Attila's researchers, who continue the legacy of Miklós Szabolcsi and are still "official". and the manipulations that continued the cult of Attila József in the 1960s, as well as the lies called "slippage" today. The volume also contains a textual analysis of the poems of the Very Hurt volume following the method of explication de texte, as the poems of this last volume, published at the end of 1936, show with the greatest purity the main motives of Attila József's mature poetry: social justice, love and true love. aspiration, a longing for the faith of God. In his studies written in the last 20 years, Péter Sárközy warns that in Hungarian public education and public thinking, after the change of regime, unfortunately, almost everything remained the same. Attila József's image of the fifties - "dialectically further developed" by Miklós Szabolcsi - lives on in both public opinion and the "profession".