Agria 41. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2005)

Király Júlia: Kéziratok, jegyzetek és feljegyzések a Dobó István Vármúzeum Gárdonyi hagyatékában IV.

IRODALOM GÁRDONYI Géza 1964 Hosszúhajú veszedelem. Budapest. GÁRDONYI József é.n. Az élő Gárdonyi. Budapest. NAGY Sándor 2000 Gárdonyi közelében. Eger. Z. SZALAY Sándor 1970 Gárdonyi műhelyében. Budapest. 1977 Gárdonyi Géza. Budapest. Júlia Király Notes and Observations on the Gárdonyi Estate at the István Dobó Castle Museum IV Gárdonyi's literary estate is unusually rich, and is indeed unique for having survived more or less complete. By examining the manuscripts of his works it is possible to trace the various changes which took place in the creative process, and analyse the detailed preparatory work which went into the lifelike depictions of the different historical periods or the characterisations of the individual characters. In this study we will be examining the novel The Invisible Man (A láthatatlan ember), the collection of short stories entitled Long-Haired Peril (Hosszúhajú veszedelem), and the novellas Good Heavens, Bid! (Aggyisten, Biri!) and The Right Honourable (Az öreg tekintetes). The manuscript of the The Invisible Man has not survived, and in the notes and diary entries there are no references whatsoever to the novel. From this one can assume that perhaps they were destroyed at the end of the Second World War when the Gárdonyi House was ransacked. The manuscript for Long-Haired Peril was written between 1909 and 1911. It is based around a conversation which took place over two Christmas nights. The meeting between friends provides an ideal opportunity for those present to express their opinions about women as well as their desires and intentions in this regard. In his short stories Gárdonyi uses this as the context for writing a critique of society, and the conventions of marriages based on false myths, particularly 404