Agria 43. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2007)

Hála József: Pajor István leírása a palóc „venségség”-ről 1845-ből

VOJTKÓ István 1996 Mozaikok a 175 éve született Csalomjai Pajor István életművéhez. Balassagyarmati Honismereti Híradó XVIII. 1-2. sz. 104-110. József Hála István Pajor's Description of a Palóc Banquet (1845) The study focuses on a genre piece entitled Village Banquet Q\xmg.:Falusi vendégség), which appeared in the pages of a literary paper in 1845, edited and published by Adolf Frankenburg, which had in its time featured writings by such illustrious names as József Bajza, Gergely Czuczor, János Erdélyi and Sándor Petőfi. Its author was István Pajor, an ambitious young provincial lawyer with literary pretensions, who creates the standard image of the jovial Hungarian at play in a genre piece laced with satire based on his own experience of the Palócföld. István Tótlipcsei Pajor was born in Alsónyék in Hont County on May 20

th 1821, and came from the old landed gentry. In 1848-1849 he was Hont County's first deputy clerk and served in the War for Freedom as an officer in the National Guard. From the beginning of the 1840s István Pajor published in a number of papers and journals in both the capital and the provinces, and his books also appeared in print. During the course of his long career he wrote poems, editorials, linguistic and legal articles and translations (from English, French, Latin, German, Slovak etc.), at first under the pen-name Káldor in the 1840s, and later using the surname Csalomjai as well as his own name. His epigrams are characterised by their malicious, satirical tone, his pieces on jollification in both Hont and Nógrád Counties proving particularly popular. The Village Banquet, which can be found in its entirety in the appendix accompanying the study, is an important source for linguists and ethnographers alike. 397