Philosophical Context in the Literary Works of Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai (1900-1989), a leading representative of 20th century Hungarian literature, wrote a large body of novels, journalism and diaries. Thanks to his thorough reading and tracing the evolution of various philosophical influences (S. Freud, F. Nietzsche, J. Ortega y Gasset, O. Spengler), the author builds a coherent picture of the Māori world, revealing the complexity of his ideas and his own practical philosophy understood in the sense of < i> fronésis< /i>. The book offers an interesting interpretive approach to Márai's work, which has made an unexpected career on the European literary scene in the last three decades.