{"id":356374,"date":"2020-02-18T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funzine.hu\/?p=356374"},"modified":"2020-02-24T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T08:56:21","slug":"the-life-of-mor-jokai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funzine.hu\/en\/2020\/02\/18\/culture\/the-life-of-mor-jokai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of M\u00f3r J\u00f3kai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The extensive oeuvre of the great romanticist M\u00f3r J\u00f3kai evokes the past of the Hungarian nation and guides his readers on the road that led to forming the bases of a new political system in Hungary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Hungarian novelist was born 195 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>M\u00f3r J\u00f3kai was born into a noble family in Kom\u00e1rom, Northwestern Hungary on 18 February, 1825. At birth he was registered as M\u00f3ric J\u00f3kay but during the Hungarian revolution of 1848 he changed the \u201cy\u201d in his last name into to an \u201ci\u201d to formally refuse the positive discrimination the noblemen were endowed with. In his biographical work (1907), the great Hungarian storyteller K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Miksz\u00e1th described the young J\u00f3kai as a shy and lonely but happy child whose imagination knew no bounds. He studied German in Bratislava, went to the Reformed College of P\u00e1pa where he met the late Hungarian poet and revolutionist S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi, and got a degree in law after two years of training in Kecskem\u00e9t.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Funzine Favourite Quote<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201c<em>The<\/em> <em>smallest lie is a greater sin than the greatest crime honestly confessed.<\/em>\u201d (Pretty Michal, 1877)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, he never practiced law as he was able to make a living with his literary works from the age of 21: his very first novel titled <em>Weekdays<\/em> (1846) brought him success. The following years revolved around his friendship with Pet\u0151fi and their preparations for the revolution. By 1848 they became the leaders of the young revolutionists. However, in September of the same year the differences between their political views damaged their relationship. Although both J\u00f3kai and Pet\u0151fi viewed the reformation of the old feudal system as something crucial for the prosperous future of Hungary, Pet\u0151fi was uncompromising whereas J\u00f3kai was open to negotiations. After the defeat in 1849, both of them were forced to live in exile. While hiding in a small village in the B\u00fckk Mountains, J\u00f3kai published his writings in different journals under the pen-name J\u00e1nos Kov\u00e1cs and reflected credit on the glorious events and people of the revolution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>The main works of M\u00f3r J\u00f3kai<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Corsair King (1957)<\/li>\n<li>The Baron\u2019s Sons (1869)<\/li>\n<li>The Dark Diamonds (1870)<\/li>\n<li>The Man with the Golden Touch (1872)<\/li>\n<li>Pretty Michal (1877)<\/li>\n<li>Eyes Like the Sea (1890)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A few years later his procession as the key figure of Romanticism in Hungary began. He became the advocate of hope in the oppressive times of the late 19th century. J\u00f3kai wrote ceaselessly with natural ease in a very smooth style, using his inexhaustible imagination. The characters and places are vividly described in his novels that focus on benignity. As he refused to accept inhumanity in its all forms, his inhumane characters are the symbol of everything evil and sinful whereas the benign but fallible protagonists are preachers of virtues. Additionally, J\u00f3kai managed to evoke the Hungarian history in a way that even today\u2019s readers feel personally attached to long gone centuries that led from the Enlightenment through the revolution of 1848 to a civic Hungary. He wrote his greatest novels after the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867: in The Baron\u2019s Sons (1869) J\u00f3kai paid tribute to the war of independence, whereas The Dark Diamonds (1870) records the bourgeois society in Hungary. However, the most prominent of all his works is The Man with the Golden Touch (1872) that follows Tim\u00e1r, a decent middle class man who searches for happiness just to lose faith in society.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of his life, J\u00f3kai\u2019s optimism was complete with a slight doubt towards the social development of the period, which cleared his vision: the great romanticist novelist was more realistic in the 1870s than ever before. Even though he became more clear-sighted, he remained a cheerful and philanthropic man who never ceased to believe in humanity, the beauty of life and justice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-funzine-large wp-image-356376\" src=\"https:\/\/funzine.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Horovitz_Portrait_of_M\u00f3r_J\u00f3kai_1888-850x1282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"1282\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extensive oeuvre of the great romanticist M\u00f3r J\u00f3kai evokes the past of the Hungarian 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