A SZERELEM SIVATAGA: Pilinszky és a világirodalom.

The article focuses on the embeddedness of János Pilinszky’s work (poetry and journalism) in world literature, and on the integrative, intercultural mediating role of his work, which has so far been only partially discussed by the reception. Seen from this angle, the oeuvre is essentially a European-scale, intercultural, transnational oeuvre, embedded in world literature. The paper analyses also the (East-)Central European references in Pilinszky’s texts, highlighting his interest towards marginality in a broad sense, this interest being reflected most importantly in the author’s rhetorical strategies, in the language of his poetry. The idea of the ‘European’ is also present in Pilinszky’s essays, and it is media- ted, the article argues, through the idea of evangelical aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]