Hegyi Katalin (szerk.): Octavian Goga Emlékmúzeum, Ady Endre háza (Budapest, 2014)
Ady Emlékház
1 one of the greatest poets of 20th century would spend a lot of time at the Boncza estate in Csúcsa with his wife, Berta Boncza (called Csinszka in his poems) from summer 1914 to his death in 1919. In 1980s Miklós Boncza, the Transylvanian Hungarian landed gentry, lawyer and MP got the castle built for his wife. His daughter Berta Boncza was born in the fanciful building situated in the picturesque neighbourhood of a hilltop on the riverside of Körös. The mother died a few days after delivery. After the tragic event the castle was locked up and left how it was in the middle of a flower garden, The baby girl was brought up by grandmother. Miklós Boncza arranged for a four room country house with outhouses to be built next to the haunted castle where the family and the personnel could find enough room comfortably. Berta was educated in elegant boarding schools in Budapest and Switzerland. The sensitive and affectionate teen-age girl in her loneliness in Switzerland inititated correspondence with Endre Ady, the famous poet of the era. They were in correspondence by fits and starts for three years when the poet became curious to meet his young devoted admirer in person. In April 1914 he visited the young girl in Csúcsa. Their encounter developed into love and they got married soon. The outbreak of WWI reached Ady ín Csúcsa and they got through most of the years of war there. Today the former Boncza estate is the memorial museum of the Romanian poet and politician Octavian Goga. He bought the estate after the war in 1920 at Berta Boncza’s request. Between 1920 and 1926 he had the buildings refurbished and extended then moved in with his wife. They lived there until his death in 1938. Nowadays fewer and fewer people know that the stately edifice originally did not belong to him. The two roomed section of the house where Ady and Csinszka lived has been indicated so since 1968. The exhibition that opened in spring 2013 revives the memory of the past: commemorates the Boncza family, Ady and Berta Boncza’s relationship and cites Ady’s war poetry and journalism. Ady Endre 1918 októberében, Emil Isac felvétele, Csúcsa Endre Ady în octombrie 1918, Emil Isac, Ciucea New Poems, I906 Blood and Gold, 1908 On Elijah’s Chariot, 1909 I’d Love to Be Loved, 1910 Poems of All Secrets, 1910 The Fleeing Life, 1912 Our Own Love, 1913 Who Have Seen Me?, 1914 Leading the Dead, 1918
