The organisers highlight that three exhibitions await visitors:

The exhibition entitled The Comet Whose Flame Carries Him to Infinity, opened on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Mór Jókai's birth and the bicentenary of the founding of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, explores a lesser-known layer of the writer's works.

It shows how scientific discoveries and technical innovations became not just themes, but text-forming forces in Jókai's novels, and how they appear in the manuscripts, letters, illustrations and first editions preserved by the museum.

The temporary exhibition entitled In Case of Death, Burn It! - Writers' Diaries is open until the end of February. It presents writers' diaries from several perspectives: what subtypes they can have, what notebooks they were written in and for how many years, how they ended up in the museum, how macrohistory is transformed into microhistory in them. 

Visitors can gain insight into the diaries of legendary diarists of Hungarian literature, including Géza Csáth, András Fodor, Milán Füst, Zsigmond Móricz, László Cs. Szabó, Miklós Szentkuthy and Anna Lesznai.

You can also visit the PIM's permanent Petőfi exhibition, To Be or Not to Be a Poet. The exhibition presents the rich oeuvre of an author who pushed the boundaries of the literary norms of the time, was determined to experiment, and often crossed genre and language barriers in a taboo-breaking way.

Address: 
1053 Budapest, Károlyi utca 16.

Further information about the exhibitions of the Petőfi Literary Museum is available at https://pim.hu/kiallitasok
 

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