László F. Földényi

László F. Földényi

Born in 1952, he is considered one of the most important intellectuals of Hungary. Specialist Aesthetics and Art Theory at its already extensive career, in addition to his work as a teacher, stands as a playwright, art theorist, essayist and philologist. In 1980 was announced with the publication of Young Lukács, a critical essay on the work of the influential Hungarian philosopher. In 1984 published Melancholy (Galaxia Gutenberg, 1996 and 2008, the latter with an unpublished text), bright and documented genealogy of the melancholy condition of the spirit from major milestones of artistic, literary, musical and philosophical creation of mankind. In this highly original canon Mikes awarded the prize for literature was followed by a study of the work of the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich; The shroud of Veronica (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2004), a suggestive essay in which Földényi invites the reader on a journey through some of the museums of Europe in search of the hidden meaning of art and paintings; small literary gem that is Dostoevsky reads Hegel in Siberia and breaks to mourn (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2006), lucid and fascinating essay on the dark exile of the great Russian narrator; and Goya and the abyss of the soul, published by the same label in 2008