hulit1-4, Exercise 3: Jokai at home and abroad

Model answer (one possible explanation; check each point):

Popular at home: he wrote immensely readable, adventurous and humorous novels that gave Hungarians a heroic and warm picture of their own history and character, in a language readers loved, at a time when the national public was growing. He was also a public figure with great reach through newspapers and parliament.

Little known abroad: he wrote in a small language, and his work depends on Hungarian history and on a style that has dated. Translations were often abridged or poor, and later literary taste moved away from Romantic storytelling. Writers from larger languages are translated more readily.

Two things to check: the history of his translations (which languages, when, how complete and how well received), and the sales and reception figures at home and abroad. Reviews in foreign newspapers would also help.