Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Complexul Memorial Ady Endre. Ghid (Satu Mare, 2020)
The start of the career as publicist
an eminent student, in spite of mynot-very-diligent character, while my behavior was not very balanced and my kindness often turned to aggressiveness. I had to attend the law school of Debrecen, because this was the only way to fulfill my fathers ambitions, to become a first squire, a sub-prefect or whatnot, but I was not a very good jurist. I tried to become a jurist in Budapest, then again in Debrecen, and later in Oradea. But my good and pious intentions vanished under the ardent influence of the publicist activity.” Ady Endre: Autobiography. Dekameron, I, Az Érdekes Újság, September 1913. THE START OF THE CAREER AS PUBLICIST “I am only thirty one years old, a fact which seems odd for my medic, dr. Konried, because my blood and nerves are dangerously wearied. I have got a mad sensibility, quick comprehension, and I fell easily in love and grieve. Through my childhood I fondled the tales not the poems, and I have memorized the psalms with difficulty. Though, I wrote poems when I hardly knew the majuscules: on the fall of my little brother, Lajos to the mud, a short ballad with splendid irony. My first book of poems was the Regék (Legends) of Sándor Kisfaludy, received from a dire aunt on my name-day, when I was eight. I liked it, but Himfy was not my favorite, even when 1 became older. Only later, the Tasso of Goethe and János Vajda conquered me to the poems. Afterwards, when I was seventeen, I have committed a good amount of poems as an outstanding member of the student’s literary club. My first poem, a patriotic piece on Kossuth, was published in the journal Szilágy, in 1896. But earlier, I have edited journals already with my fellows at the piarist gymnasium of Carei. [...] From Debrecen, where nobody would have seen in me even the smallest brother of Csokonai, and where my first volume of poems was published, I moved to Oradea as a journalist. This city with its restless, intelligent and Jewish atmosphere changed in me a lot, which was formed until then by the village, the towns of Carei, Zalău and Debrecen, in fact similarly villages, formed in me. My fingers were blocked, however, by a defiant cynism: I have considered not worthy to write to became a József Kiss.” Ady Endre: Autobiography. Nyugat, 1 June 1909. “I was guided to the journalism by old and secret ambitions, certainly within the circumstances of the customs. I wrote a poem when I was seven, I have edited written journals in my second and third grade of gymnasium, and made poetry in at the fifth grade at the Ady Endre la Debreţin şi la Oradea / Ady Endre Debrecenben és Nagyváradon / Ady Endre at Debrecen and Oradea F. Csorba Csilla: Ady. A portrévá lett arc. Budapest, Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, 2008. p. 47, 51 21
