I keep thinking about how narrow his space must have been at that point — not just as a poet, but simply as a sick human being who still had to justify his existence.
He really was strikingly beautiful, which makes the whole thing feel even more unreal somehow.
Endre Ady (Hungarian poet, 1877–1919)
He was seriously ill when his brother tried to pressure him into securing a government position — as if poetry and survival could be traded for “usefulness”.
When persuasion didn’t work, there was another kind of pressure: the threat of sending him to a feared medical institution in Budapest, associated at the time with severe neurological and psychiatric illness. #adyendre #ady #hungary
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