Petőfi - everyone knows who he was: a pretty moustache, a fashionable beard, a braided beard, numerous tivornyas into legendary ribs, Hungarian landscapes sung into beautiful poems, even more love preserved in even more legendary poems. And of course the freedom struggle! The ardent poet who died on the battlefield in General Bem's army. But who was Petőfi really?
He gave him only 26 years - but what a 26 years it was! In this short time, his being filled the sky! With his vibrant personality, he charmed those around him - his fame spread everywhere, to the emperor, Kossuth, the greatest of domestic poetry, and even in foreign literary circles, he was the subject of rumors and songs. And the people took it on their lips: many notes were created from his poems! Then there was also a heartthrob who did not disdain physical pleasures, who fell in love from one moment to the next, and he was also an enthusiastic spouse who adored his Julia "thousands of times"! At times he was reserved, at times exuberant, at times restrained, at times striking, at times flying with happiness, at times filled with deep despair. He was a loyal and unfaithful friend at the same time, who was able to give everything to someone, and then after a moment, eternal anger rose in his heart. An absolute genius, sometimes deified, sometimes rejected giant. His emotions were eternally strained to the point of a pimple: he loved passionately and hated fiercely and loudly. But his eternal love was really only one: he adored his chosen nation, the Hungarians! He always insisted on it tooth and nail.
A captivating story about Sándor Petőfi, who fought for his Hungarian identity and for all Hungarians. We would be Hungarians differently today if we didn't have this "Vicskó", this passionate lake boy, who became Hungarian either out of whim, or at the behest of his heart or his eternally scourged God, and he also made us nobler with his poems. On the pages of this biographical novel faithfully written on the basis of available sources, the human face of the giant poet unfolds, with his greatness interspersed with his fallibility and human weaknesses. The reform era glows in the background, then catches fire, and through Petőfi's personal story, we can glimpse the years of a nation finding itself.
Anna Berényi paints the well-known daguerreotype of Petőfi with the colors of reality, but she not only paints, but like in the storybook about the seven countries: she brings her hero to life. She dresses him in his striking purple tailcoat with gold buttons, combs his unruly black curls, gives him a horse, and he's off to save the world...