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MELINDA SEBŐK
of Infarction (Az infarktus félálmai) the lyric subject mediates between
its internal and external experiences, its realisations during the illness,
the implications of passing, the inner silence of the soul, while perceiving,
with conviction, the world beyond existence. One reads in Changes in
Scenery (Tájak változása) that
Everything remained the same:
the calm heart-beat of life,
the preparing death in the bones,
the coming winter, the silence inside,
and the peace and the trust
stronger than everything.
The transcendental experience of the poetry of Gyorgy Rénay is conveyed
through the transfer of the metaphor of silence, through internal speech,
through the saturation of existential understanding. The Christian-humanist
spirit, the suggestive transcendence of the landscape, reconciliation in
God’s silence are expressed, in some of his lyrics masterpieces, through
the transverbal meaning of the figure of silence and its ontological
transparency. Throughout the process of understanding, neither the total
imposition of silence nor minimal disclosure is meant — the essence of
Rénay's transcendental poetry is the transition between announcing
the silence and the mysticism of unspeakable infinity, thus his range spans
from the mysticism of visible phenomena to invisible infinity. He states in
his poetic creed: “According to my sense and conviction, literature possesses
truly great metaphysical duties, more precisely, true literature is metaphysics,
it is an explanation of existence, it means the grasping of the essential,
[...] the secrets of existence and the universal. Hungarian literature is [...]
a confession of how we face the final events, life, death, God, and the ultimate
principle of our myths and mysteries.”°
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ROnay, Gyorgy, Cim nélkiili valasz Kézai Bélanak (An Untitled Reply to Béla
Kézai), Vigilia, Vol. 4 (1938).
RÔNAY, György, Babits hite (Ihe Faith of Babits), in Pók, Lajos (ed.), Babits
Mihály száz esztendeje (Mihály Babitss Hundred Years), Budapest,
Gondolat, 1983.
55 György Rónay, Cím nélküli válasz Kézai Bélának (An Untitled Reply to Béla Kézai), Vigilia,
Vol. 4 (1938), 239.
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