Gyula Dávid

Gyula Dávid

Gyula Dávid (Árapatak, 1928), literary historian. Was Chairman, now Honorary Chairman of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Transylvania, and one of the co-founders of Polis Publishing House. He was arrested in 1957 and sentenced to seven-year-imprisonment for sympathizing with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He was released from prison in 1964 and worked as a manual worker until his rehabilitation in 1969. He wrote monographs on major 19th century Hungarian writers (Mór Jókai, Sándor Petőfi, and Lajos Tolnai), and published several books of essays: Meetings (1976), Hungarian Literature – World Literature (2003), Writers, Works, Workshops in Transylvania (2005). He is the editor of the oeuvre of Miklós Bánffy and Sándor Reményik.

THE INCONVENIENT GRAND SEIGNEUR

Memory of Miklós Bánffy I. THE INCONVENIENT GRAND SEIGNEUR The Memory of Miklós Bánffy1 If there were a single word to describe the life and afterlife of the author of the monumental A Transylvanian Trilogy, “inconvenient” would certainly best epitomize both the man and the writer. He was the scion