Zoltán Ambrus, l’un des premiers propagateurs de Charles Baudelaire et de Gustave Flaubert en Hongrie

Abstract

The presence of Charles Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert in Hungary is studied through the oeuvre of a Hungarian writer, Zoltán Ambrus (1861–1932) in our paper. Zoltán Ambrus is a versatile Hungarian author keenly interested in French literature, whose journalistic, reviewing, translating oeuvre is rich in French aspects: he provides a good example on how the French and Hungarian artistic and literary lives are interwoven in several ways. Ambrus, an outstanding literary critic and translator of his age, was amoung the first critics to refer to Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (1861) in the 1880s and the first to translate Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857) into Hungarian in 1904. His French taste and education, profound knowledge of French literature are manifested in his oeuvre, translations and prose works.

Keywords

• Ambrus (Zoltán)
• Hungarian–French literary relations
• translation
• critics
• cultural transfer