Publisher: Mundus Novus Kft.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS IN MONGOLIA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS IN MONGOLIA

Author(s): István Erdélyi / Language(s): English

Keywords: Mongolia; Steppe; archaeologica

The volume presents the results of the excavations of the joint Mongolian-Hungarian expeditions: among others the relics of the Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age, the stag steles and the tombs of the Asian Hun (Hiung-nu) people from the 1st-2nd centuries A.D. Besides the scientific description of the finds, it also gives the details of their historical-archaeological background, on the basis of the data in the earlier literature, including foreign parallels. He also reflects on the theory of the Turcs in a distant connection with the Khazar and Avar archaeological relics. In Appendix: New data on the palaeoanthropology of northern Mongolia by Tibor TÓTH; The palaeosomatology of the Naima-Tolgoy population by Ildikó PAP; A pathological study of the skeletal material from Naima-Tolgoy by Antónia MARCSIK.

SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS A THEORY OF FOLKLORE

SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS A THEORY OF FOLKLORE

Author(s): Vilmos Voigt / Language(s): English

Keywords: Folk literature; European folk cultures; African Folklore;

The actuality of folklore is a key notion within the book. The papers follow the same style, with a general and systematizing approach, and a general bibliography closes the volume. Referring not only to Hungarian, but American, Russian, French, even Greek and Finnish monographs, Voigt’s work is a unique attempt to give suggestions toward a comparative and actual theory of folklore. These studies will be relevant readings to scholars of literature, communication theory, semiotics and culture theory too – just to mention some of the papers in the book.This collection of 25 papers (originally published over a period of about 25 years) is directed toward English-language readers. The papers describe the genres of folklore research, their systems, the variants and their interrelations – very important themes in the area. Several studies are devoted to history of research, and to historical stratification of folklore itself. Symbolism and ethnic characteristics of folklore items are the topics of other papers.The actuality of folklore is a key notion within the book. The papers follow the same style, with a general and systematizing approach, and a general bibliography closes the volume. Referring not only to Hungarian, but American, Russian, French, even Greek and Finnish monographs, Voigt’s work is a unique attempt to give suggestions toward a comparative and actual theory of folklore. These studies will be relevant readings to scholars of literature, communication theory, semiotics and culture theory too – just to mention some of the papers in the book.

World Economics 1

World Economics 1

Author(s): Tamás Szentes / Language(s): English

Keywords: Development Theory; Economic Philosophy

Professor Tamás Szentes is a world-renowned author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles, conference papers etc., mainly on theoretical and methodological issues of international economics and development studies. Among his English publications the most renowned one is The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (published first in 1971 by Akadémiai Kiadó / Budapest, translated also 11 other languages and republished in 11 countries, altogether in 16 editions until 1988).In view of the substantial changes since the last decades of the 20th century (the acceleration of the process of globalization and technological progress involving new “revolutions” in information and communication technologies, the extension of global networks of transnational companies, the collapse of the soviet bloc, along with the end of the bipolar world and cold war, a series of system transformation, shifts in power relations and in international development gap, the deepening of disequilibria and inequalities etc.) and of the related new concepts as well as the need for new or corrected teaching materials Professor Szentes has not only revised but also substantially completed and thematically enlarged his former works in this book consisting two separate but organically interlinked volumes, namely: World Economics 1. Comparative Theories and Methods of International and Development Economics and World Economics 2. The Political Economy of Development, Globalization and System Transformation (first published in 2006 by Akadémiai Kiadó / Budapest).

World Economics 2

World Economics 2

Author(s): Tamás Szentes / Language(s): English

Professor Tamás Szentes is a world-renowned author of dozens of books and hundreds of articles, conference papers etc., mainly on theoretical and methodological issues of international economics and development studies. Among his English publications the most renowned one is The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (published first in 1971 by Akadémiai Kiadó / Budapest, translated also 11 other languages and republished in 11 countries, altogether in 16 editions until 1988).In view of the substantial changes since the last decades of the 20th century (the acceleration of the process of globalization and technological progress involving new “revolutions” in information and communication technologies, the extension of global networks of transnational companies, the collapse of the soviet bloc, along with the end of the bipolar world and cold war, a series of system transformation, shifts in power relations and in international development gap, the deepening of disequilibria and inequalities etc.) and of the related new concepts as well as the need for new or corrected teaching materials Professor Szentes has not only revised but also substantially completed and thematically enlarged his former works in this book consisting two separate but organically interlinked volumes, namely: World Economics 1. Comparative Theories and Methods of International and Development Economics and World Economics 2. The Political Economy of Development, Globalization and System Transformation (first published in 2006 by Akadémiai Kiadó / Budapest).

The Procurator of Satans

Der Statthalter des Satans

Author(s): Károly Szalay / Language(s): German

Keywords: historischer Roman; ungarische geschichte; satanische Figur; László Listius

Der Statthalter des Satans ist ein unegewöhnlicher historischer Roman. Schauplatz ist Ungarn in der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Noch befinden sich die Türken im Landesinnern. Der Habsburger Kaiser ist bereits Herr über das Land, teilt aber seine Macht mit den Aristrokaten. Die herausragenden Gestalten dieser Epoche sind der später unter geheimnisvollen Umständen verstorbene Miklós Zrínyi, der Palatin Ferenc Wesselényi, der Theoretiker der Gegenreformation Péter Pázmány sowie der grosse siebenbürgische Fürst Gábor Bethlen. Der Held des Romans ist eine aus unsicheren Quellen hervorgegrabene, schriftstellerisch trefflich bearbeitete satanische Figur: László Listius. Dieser vom Teufel besessene Giftmischer, unbarmherzige Mörder und unzüchtige Päderast hat möglicherweise bei den Jesuiten gelernt und auch Gedichte geschrieben. Seine Intelligenz stellt er aber in den Dienst seiner unbändigen Leidenschaften. Mit teuflischem Erfindungsreichtum hält er den Palatin in Schrecken, und durch die Alchimie gerät er auch in Kontakt zum Kaiser selbst. Gleichzeitig terrorisiert er auf sadistische Weise seine Umgebung und entschlüpft immer wieder den Fängen des Gesetzes. Die mitreissende Erzählung enthält entsprechend der Intention des Autors eine wichtige Erkenntnis: In der Gesellschaft sind fast immer unerklärliche dunkle Kräfte verborgen, die, wenn sie an die Oberfläche dringen, nur um den Preis schwerer Opfer zu bezwingen sind.“Károly Szalay has dug himself so deep in the 17th century that it clearly deserves admiration: for instance, he publishes two letters in the novel which we read in the total belief that they are contemporary documents. However, in actual fact, they were both written by Szalay! That is, once again we experience the style mimicry that Kálmán Thaly produced with the “authentic” 17th century Kuruts poems… However, our author is able to evoke the air of the 17th century not only with the style of the era but also with his ability to create the right atmosphere… I am truly surprised that no one has yet considered turning this novel into film…”(The Governor of Satan)Albert Beke (1996)

Love and Death in Pompeji

Szerelem és halál Pompejiben

Author(s): Károly Szalay / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: Love; Death; Pompeji; Vesuvius; Pliny; volcano eruption

A regény lapjain az elpusztult, majd kiásott város, Pompeji mindennapjai elevenednek meg. A Vesuv kitörése előtti két nap ad időkeretet a sodró erejű történetnek. A főbb szereplők részben közvetlenül „a falról lépnek le”: a 11 000 fennmaradt falfeliraton, falfirkán megnevezett személyek köréből kerülnek ki, mint például Asteropaeus, a 107-szer győztes gladiátor, Smyrna, a perzsa lány, a kocsmárosné, az Isis szentély papja vagy Jucundus bankár. A regénynek mintegy keretéül a tudós id. Plinius sorsának alakulása szolgál, akinek életét unokaöccse leírásából ismerjük, és aki a természeti katasztrófa idején (Kr. u. 79.) a misenumi római hadiflotta parancsnoka volt.

Our years in Love

Szerelmes éveink

Author(s): Károly Szalay / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: 1950s; love and history; modern Hungarian prose

“I believe that not many in Hungarian literature painted love so coarsely in its charm. Theconcept is consistent and succeeds in creating its own peaks: expressing the rich contents of eroticism,of bodily fulfilment.Szalay also describes the lives of funnily pitiable characters. There is an archangel hoveringover the destructively filthy flow and flood of university expulsions. Luis Majer’s shrunk astral body,too, turns to nothing, just like a shadow when dusk falls. …Yet, the subject of our nostalgia is youth,that of our sympathy is the omniscient fog-knight, and that of our love is Gabi Udvari.Are you still alive, and where have you disappeared to, Gabi?Her character turning into a woman, a mature human being, enchants not only the characters ofthis book but also the reader. Because, after all, in their lamented boyhood, who was not wrappedaround the fingers of a genuine city student girl in the process of learning what love is? However,Gabi is more than that. She is the missed opportunity, the eternally regretted completeness…What we have unfolding before us is a dimming picture, yet glittering with colourful lights,which is animated and enjoyable throughout, a peculiar drawing, with exciting shades, of the lostimage of our common ground.”(Our Years in Love)József Domokos (1985)

Bull Monastery

Bikakolostor

Author(s): Károly Szalay / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: history; policy; love; eroticism

Our Years in Love (1985) and Parallel Relations (1988) only cover a period of ten years: from1947 to 1956. Bull Monastery covers thirty. The first volume is that of youth, full of blaze, energy,impulse, irony and eroticism. Sweeping style, vibrating action, spiced up with colourful sexual images.Bull Monastery is a novel of manhood and, simultaneously, of the case history of absurdity (a slovenlysociety – using Elemér Hankiss’s term), full of painful nostalgia, memories, bitterness, frustration,resignation, and desperate, “opposing” pantheism just for the sake of it: insistence on the sincere loveof sincere nature. It is slower-moving but none the less witty in style for it, with a flow of internalmonologues disguised as long dialogues, anecdotes radiating a wry atmosphere, philosophicalthoughts, and a manic adoration of the truth.”

Parallel Love Relationships

Párhuzamos viszonyok

Author(s): Károly Szalay / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: policy; love; eroticism; history; 1956 Hungary

“The book was one of the great successes of the 1988 Book Week…The sex scenes, perhaps overly explicit in their details, the action carryingthe reader away, and mainly, however, the most convincing, most authenticand most sincere description to date of the events of the 1956 uprising,which form integral parts of the story, probably all contributed to thesuccess. This topic has been manipulated by so many and in so manydifferent ways that we who actually experienced them in real life recognizethem at last.”(Parallel Relations)Emil Kolozsvári Granpierre (1988) “I do not particularly wish to celebrate this kind of elimination of traditional taboos sinceliterary criticism, as is widely known, has, for a long time, been of the opinion that the bluntdescription of erotic topics is aesthetically indifferent; the only thing that matters is how the subjectfits into the novel composition, and what aesthetic value the description in itself has. Well, in thisrespect, the eroticism of the Szalay novels is aesthetically correct and is, at times, assigned none otherthan a “poetic” role… Csarody, the protagonist of the novels, is incessantly faced with thedevelopments of tyranny.. mostly, however, with the political comedy of the era which is described bySzalay in a series of particularly apt episodes. These episodes are real satires…”(Parallel Relations)Béla Pomogáts (1989)

In the footsteps of the gag 1 - The Anatomy of the movie comic. From the history of the movie comic

A geg nyomában 1 - A filmkomikum anatómiája. A filmkomikum történetéből

Author(s): Károly Szalay / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: Hungarian film history; movie comedy; elements of the movie comedy; comic forms; pain and film comics; comic contrast; gag as a comic structure; social and characteristics; Stan Laurel; Oliver Norvelle Hardy; Jacques Tati

A kötet szerzője a komikum, az irodalomban, képzőművészetben és más művészeti ágakban megjelenő humor, irónia és groteszk kiemelkedő, páratlan jelentőségű hazai kutatója. Életműsorozatának keretében most három kötetben (A geg nyomában, 1–3) jelennek meg azok a munkái, amelyek a nemzetközi és hazai filmművészetben fellelhető komikum elméletét és történetét tárják fel. Így a jelenlegi kötetben kapott helyet az az egykor önálló kötetben napvilágot látott ragyogó tanulmány (A filmkomikum anatómiája) is, amely immár vagy három évtizede szolgál tankönyvül felsőoktatási intézmények egész sorában. A kötet második felében a nyugat-európai és amerikai burleszk világa tárul a szemünk elé a regényíró–irodalomkutató–humortörténész Szalay Károly szakavatott útmutatása nyomán.