Abstract EN:

In the beginning of the 20th century the translation of foreign (western) literature played an important role in the modernisation of Hungarian literature. The renewal of Hungarian literature and the formation of modernist poetry occours in the works and translations of Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Árpád Tóth and Lőrinc Szabó, who are important translators and authors of the review Nyugat (The West). Following their translations and theory of it, literary historians of the second part of the 20th century emphasized two categories, namely fidelity and equivalence when studying translation as creative method, or interpreting and reading translated texts. The main focus of my research is to examine this translation interpretative discourse historically and theoretically. I examined thoroughly to what extent followed the translation theoretical thinking of Nyugat the tradition of earlier periods. Looking for new theoretical frames for translation interpretation, I studied the possible role of intertextuality and the fiction theories in the interpretation of translated texts. I applied and challenged my theoretical claims in interpreting Endre Ady's translations of the poems of Baudelaire.