Olga Granasztói

Olga Granasztói

Olga Granasztói born in 1971 in Budapest, she completed her degree in Hungarian and French at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1997. In 2006 she completed her doctorate at Szeged University on 18th century French and Hungarian literature and cultural history. Her dissertation, Francia könyvek magyar olvasói – a tiltott irodalom fogadtatása Magyarországon (The Hungarian Readers of French Books – The Reception of Forbidden Literature in Hungary), was published in 2009. She is presently working as a member of the Classic Hungarian Textology Research Group at Debrecen University on the manuscripts of Ferenc Kazinczy.

SZÉPHALOM – THE UTOPIA OF AN ENGLISH GARDEN – PART II

IV  The garden at Széphalom that came to fruition during Kazinczy’s lifetime tells us the story of unfulfilled plans and a difficult-to-maintain lifestyle, when we reconstruct his desired and completed plans from the wealth of surviving documents. It does not take much brain work to figure out what the main

SZÉPHALOM – THE UTOPIA OF AN ENGLISH GARDEN – PART I

Ferenc Kazinczy, as an enthusiastic amateur and knowledgeable connoisseur, has long been synonymous with horticulture in Hungary, and in particular with the art of the English landscape garden. The profound effect that this new art form, which swept through Hungary at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, had

THE NEW SANS SOUCI

Remembrance of a Garden of Szepesség The New Sans Souci garden fell out of use some two-hundred years ago, yet its unusual history and charm, vivid in historical memory to this day, may well explain why it has retained a more prominent place in the cultural history of the region