The life, diary, letters and confession of Júlia Szendrey on her deathbed

The widow of Sándor Petőfi lived her short life with the scorn of infidelity, struggling not only with the loss of her love but also with the burden that she had to face the judgment of the Hungarian writing society, politicians and the common people adoring the poet. He didn't last long, he died at the age of 39. The book, which is a real and complete account of Julia Szendrey, has been waiting to be flipped for almost a hundred years. We have already got details from it, but it took a long time for a new society to emerge in which the rational approach to history, the fullest possible exploration of truth, is more important than the idolization of the romantic hero. Julia Szendrey wrote her diary for herself. It is an uplifting feeling to read the lines. But this book not only reveals his writings and letters to us. On its pages we can also read a chronicle of events and notes, from which we also learn about the circumstances of the tragic death of Sándor Petőfi. No wonder this book hasn’t been in print for so many years, as we wanted to make the great poet happy, alive, even in distant Siberia, not frozen in blood on the battlefield. Julia's Calvary does not begin with the loss of Petofi, but with her flare-up of love for the poet, as her parents opposed the marriage, but her faith was strong enough to defeat the skeptics. He knew, he felt, they were both kindred spirits. He had barely three years of marriage in return, albeit with a reputation that he had only felt the disadvantage of in his lifetime. Her love did not go away with the subsequent ordeal, as Countess Margaret Bethlen beautifully put it: it has been there ever since, darkening the world around it. "