IN:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Partit\u00fara Irodalomtudom\u00e1nyi foly\u00f3irat, Volume XVII. , Issue 2, 2022, p. 15-34,\u00a0ISSN 1336-7307<\/span><\/p>\n DOI:\u00a0<\/strong>10.17846\/PA.2022.17.1.15-34<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n This essay is part of a larger project that explores M\u00e1rai\u2019s relationship to otherness, homosexuality and queer phenomena, drawing on his \u201ecomplete\u201d and \u201eincomplete\u201d public and private diaries. The project aims to capture the exciting rhetorical interplay between the often almost \u201eanarchic\u201d openness and the dissociation that results from individualism, but also to mark M\u00e1rai\u2019s place in the queer discourse of Hungarian literature. M\u00e1rai is not only a witness to the emergence of this topic as a relevant literary discourse, but also a critic, and probably the only Hungarian writer to have followed the rise of gay emancipation movements (especially in the US) with relative interest, and their development into political, public and even artistic factors. This paper examines only one segment of this complex world: the diary entries relating to the \u201agay\u2019 writings and gayness of Gide, Proust and Green. The \u201acomplete\u2019 diary is, of course, also the genre of the moment: accordingly, one cannot always draw a \u201astandpoint-like\u2019 thesis from the entries, yet the dynamics that unfold between tolerance and intolerance, between literary and human, ethical and artistic comfort zones, can be important. Nor is it irrelevant how these movements resonate in the often rather coy or rather uninteresting M\u00e1rai literature on the subject, or emerge in primary fiction. Nor do issues of sex and otherness feature prominently in the diligent and extensive review literature that accompanies the diary entries, or in larger-scale studies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Keywords:<\/strong> S\u00e1ndor M\u00e1rai, discourses of otherness, French modernism, diary literature, gay literature, Andr\u00e9 Gide, Julien Green and Marcel Proust\u2019s reception in Hungary<\/p>\n