The essays gathered in this volume offer a modest selection from the work of Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, one of the most distinguished Hungarian literary scholars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. For several decades, Szegedy-Maszák was a figure of international recognition in the humanities, both as a historian and interpreter of Hungarian literature and as a scholar whose work consistently sought to place Hungarian culture in dialogue with broader European and global traditions.