Kérdező vándorok
Inquiring Wanderers

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes the connection between Rezső Peéry (1910–1977), the master of the Hungarian essay, and József Méliusz (1909–1995), the classic of the avant-garde in Transylvanian Hungarian literature, based on their travels in the 1930s in the Upper Hungary and Transylvania. The new Hungarian minority generation, raised under the teachings of Ady Endre, Móricz Zsigmond, and Szabó Dezső, aimed for their communities’ democratic national and social elevation. Their kindred endeavors materialized within the period’s student movements, the democratic movement in Upper Hungary, later the communist movement “Sarló”, and in the activities of “Erdélyi Fiatalok”, and ”Korunk”’s anti-fascist people’s front activities. Their acquaintance, political and public life experiences, and extensive connections effectively aided the coordination of their activities. Their tragic life paths intersected multiple times later on as well. The study provides an overview of the even more hopeless situation of the Hungarian minority in Transylvania and Upper Hungary after the two Vienna Awards (1938, 1940), during the fascist Slovak puppet state and the Romanian royal dictatorship.

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