Practices of the Adoption and Reproduction of the Female Point of Vew, or How Miklós Mészöly Took Notes on the Diary of Mária Baskircsev

Abstract

Miklós Mészöly liked to use the female narrative voice in his prose. His work as a writer was preceded by a continuous collection of data. Reading diaries was an important area of interest for his readership. Women's diaries are a particular genre, through which a more personal aspect of self-expression and remembrance, the emotionally experienced forms of events, are presented. In one of Mészöly's working diaries, which is still in manuscript, he takes pages and pages of notes from the two-volume diary of Mária Baskircsev. In this study I will examine the characteristics, themes and stylistics of Mészöly's diary highlights and the contribution they make to the writer's work.