Avantgárdok egymás között. Kánonformációk a párizsi Magyar Műhely és Méliusz József kapcsolatában
Avant-gardes Among Themselves: Canon Formations in the Relationship Between the Journal Magyar Műhely and József Méliusz

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the distinct aspects of having emigré or minority cultural identities in an intercultural relationship maintained by József Méliusz, a Hungarian writer who lived in Romania, and Pál Nagy, co-editor of the Paris-based Hungarian neo-avant-garde journal Magyar Műhely. József Méliusz had a signficant part in the history of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde. As an author and promoter of the historical avant-garde, he had a remarkable influence on the poetry of Domokos Szilágyi and Aladár Lászlóffy, who were considerd as neo-avant-garde authors. This relationship also altered Méliusz’s late oeuvre; his literary work was significantly influenced by the poetry of the younger generations, just like by the artistic vision of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde journal Új Symposion, edited in Yugoslavia. However, the story of Méliusz and the neo-avant-garde extends beyond the borders of the Eastern Bloc. In the 1970s, Méliusz reached out to the editorial board of Magyar Műhely. It was a particular relationship: due to the differences of context, they viewed the notion of the avant-garde differently. Méliusz, from the position of the Eastern European Hungarian minority tended to see the contemporary Hungarian avant-garde as the open cooperation between various versions, while the Magyar Műhely, as an emigrant group which tended to be abreast with the progressive French culture, used a restricted, teleogical concept of the avant-garde. The article demonstrates how these premises constituted the canonical formations in their relationship.

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