In
1946, a Hungarian poet stood in front of the Reformation Wall in the Parc des
Bastions in Geneva. Gyula Illyés’s poem – Before the Reformation Monument in
Geneva – is now regarded as one of the most important Hungarian poems of
the 20th century, alongside his better known 1950 poem One Sentence on
Tyranny. In his poem, Gyula Illyés (1902–1983), in his Paris youth a
left-wing activist from a Roman Catholic paternal background, asks the question
“Do you believe there would be a Hungarian nation if there had been no Calvin?”
His answer is “I do not think so.”
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