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Transculturalism in literature as reflected in the works of translingual writers from the Hungarian cultural context

Author(s): Magdalena Roguska-Németh / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The aim of the paper is to show the impact of transculturalism on the research conducted in the field of literary studies. The first part presents the history of the concept and lists the most important researchers associated with it, such as Wolfgang Welsch, considered the creator of the concept, and Arianna Dagnino, who is believed to be the most important contemporary researcher of the interconnections of transculturalism with literature. Dagnino is also the author of the definition of the so-called transcultural literature, which is discussed in the paper. The third and last part contains considerations about the place of the so-called transcultural writers in the literary canon. The context for these reflections is provided by three translingual authors of Hungarian origin: Agota Kristof, Edith Bruck and Tibor Fischer.

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The transcultural levels of minority literary history writing: Hungarian literature in Slovakia

Author(s): Zoltán Németh / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

This paper deals with the concept of minor literature, which is understood as a kind of provocation towards literary history, and investigates the unstable, “wobbly” position of Hungarian literature in Slovakia occupied in Hungarian and Slovak literary histories. The methodological basis of the article is formed by the phenomenon of transculturalism, which is capable of activating and generating meanings on various spaces, levels and layers of literature. The study discusses different levels of transculturalism through some authors and texts in Slovak Hungarian literature, along with transcultural authorial identity, transcultural meaning-making machinery of texts, transcultural practices of the social context, and transcultural directions and gaps in reception. The purpose of the paper is to classify some transcultural phenomena and to unravel their conceptual and interpretative levels.

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Az 1848–1849-es forradalom és szabadságharc emlékezete női szerzők naplóiban és emlékirataiban

Author(s): Annamária Biró / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

The 1848-49 revolution appears as a pivotal moment in almost every memoir, serving as a significant turning point that completely reshapes the authors’ previous lives and daily routines. The reconstruction of events is always influenced by the authors’ current situation: the political environment, their social status when writing their texts. In my study, I undertake the analysis of memoirs written by female authors. For these women who sought to perpetuate the memories, the revolution and War of Independence also meant a change in the normative system of their lives, requiring them to rethink their own positions and life opportunities in the new circumstances. By dissecting the elements of narrative identity, we can observe how the components of their new roles evolve in the light of historical events, and also recognize the impact of learned behaviors and interpretative patterns, whether encouraging action or limiting it. The study examines the linguistic manifestations of these phenomena.

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Wass Ottilia grófnő kéziratos versfüzete. Előmunkálat

Author(s): Imola Jakab / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

The Wass family is a famous aristocratic family of Transylvania. Among its members, Countess Ottilia Wass (1829-1917), with her special education, stood out with her social sensitivity and her sustained activities of cultural patronage. Studying the archives of the Wass family, the author of the article identified a notebook with verses entitled Poésies 1869- 1870, which contains some of her own lyrical creations alongside poems and aphorisms of other authors mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to the 15 texts in Hungarian, the notebook contains 5 French, 14 English and 13 German texts, including Hungarian, German and English poems by female authors. The textual examination of the manuscript sheds light on the countess’s linguistic abilities, her preferences as a reader, as well as (to a lesser extent) her network of literary relationships.

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„Mi az, hogy Palics?” Transzkulturális közelítések Tolnai Ottó Szeméremékszerek című regénytrilógiájához

Author(s): István Ladányi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: XI/2024

The paper deals with the transcultural features of the trilogy of novels, Szeméremékszerek, by the Hungarian author Ottó Tolnai from Serbia. In the narrative, with its complex focalization through alter-egos, the local space (the resort town of Palić on the Serbian- Hungarian border) is itself presented as a space of coexistence and encounters and interactions of cultures, with both traditional and new forms of these, while at the same time this complex cultural space intersects with global cultural spaces in many ways, which continue into each other without precisely demarcated boundaries.

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Mit akarunk Velencétől? Velence képe a 20–21. századi magyar prózairodalomban

Author(s): Katalin Lakatos-Fleisz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 12/2024

What is the purpose of traveling to Venice today, and what motivated the travellers of the 20th century? To what extent can the popularity of Venice be traced back to a general image awaiting manifestation in the form of a visible city – as an image carries emotional significance and evokes a desire for connection? This study explores this general image within 20th and 21st-century literary works, ranging from Dezső Kosztolányi to Éva Bánki.

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In memoriam Kerekes György (1933–2024)

Author(s): Gyöngy Kovács Kiss / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 12/2024

In this personal tribute, the editor of the journal reflects on the life and contributions of György Kerekes, a long-time collaborator and proofreader who worked with the publication for many years. The essay highlights his professional dedication and the deep personal connection forged over time, offering a heartfelt remembrance of his impact on the journal and the literary community.

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Emlékeim Fodor úrról

Author(s): György Gömöri / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 12/2024

This personal reflection by György Gömöri recalls his first adult journey to Transylvania in the summer of 1956, when he met Sándor Fodor, one of the most important figures in the literary life of Cluj.

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Voltaire és Fekete János gróf levelezése. Kritikai rekonstrukció

Author(s): Emese Egyed / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2023

The work focuses on Voltaire’s correspondence with János Fekete, one of the Hungarian translators of some of Voltaire’s poetic works. On the basis of the critical edition of Voltaire’s correspondence, Fekete’s book Mes Rapsodies (1786) which contains most of the texts, and also of other literary sources, the chronological order of these letters, some of which have not been dated, is established. The correspondence covers a period of two years, 1767-1769, and counts 16 letters. Apart from this chronology, it is shown that some texts sent by Voltaire to Count Fekete were sent a decade later to Prince Byeloselsky, and the critical edition published in the 20th-21st century refers only to Byeloselsky. The work also thematizes the fact that Fekete requested from Voltaire the criticism of his poems, which was achieved through a long prosody lesson. The importance of evaluating these letters together with the attached texts (poems, short stories, pamphlets) is also stated.

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Megőrzött tárgyak tekintete

Author(s): Imre József Balázs / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 01/2025

The books of Zimra Harsányi and Magda Simon were published almost simultaneously in 2024 by the Oradea-based Holnap Könyvek. Both authors created emblematic works of Holocaust literature – texts based on contemporary notes that reached their final form in the 1960s, during the second era of Hungarian women’s Holocaust literature. Zimra Harsányi's book The Everyday Life of Madness was first published in Hungarian in 1966. The author’s figure, besides appearing in the final episodes of Alaine Polcz’s Woman at the Front, also appears in Andrea Tompa’s 2023 novel We Don’t Always Die. The way Zimra’s figure becomes a part of Tilda’s life in the Tompa Andrea novel precisely contributes to outlining the identity of the young protagonist, an identity that is difficult to find and was almost inaccessible to her earlier due to many silences. Ágnes Rózsa, Zimra Harsányi, and Magda Simon open the path for Tilda in the novel towards her own past.

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The Janus legacy in Seville

Author(s): Alfonso Lombana Sánchez / Language(s): English Issue: Spec.Issue/2024

This paper analyzes the Janus Pannonius collections in Seville, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, Ms T (7-1-15) and Ms S (56-4-57), which have enriched our knowledge of Janus Pannonius' literary heritage. The study argues that Ms T and Ms S belong to the π tradition, which could explain the collections curated nearly or almost exclusively by Janus Pannonius in Hungary during the last years of his life. The paper contributes to a deeper understanding of Janus Pannonius and, thanks to the legacy of Seville, provides insights into the broader dynamics of humanist networks, manuscript transmission and book collecting during the Renaissance.

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Music in János Térey’s Verse Novel A Legkisebb Jégkorszak [The Shortest Ice Age]

Author(s): Lenke Kocsis / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Mentioning composers, singers, bands, and well-known musical events and citing lyrics have all been well-established and commonplace practices in literature throughout the ages. The interpretation of these gestures usually resembles the process of understanding other kinds of allusions, references, and intertextuality because that is what the above-listed instances ultimately are. When it comes to art forms that combine multiple forms of media, such as films, the use of music as background score, soundtrack, etc. is usually perceived as a fundamental part of the work, and its absence is always noted. Such frequent or constant appearance of music in literary works is not commonplace, and it typically means that the plot and theme of the text itself are music, or at least they are heavily music-oriented. The 2015 verse novel of János Térey is quite peculiar in this regard. On average, a song, a piece, a composer, or a band is mentioned one very seventh page of the book. The music referenced includes numerous genres from metal to pop, classical, jazz, and even hymns. The situations vary from background music on the radio to a character listening to his/her favourite song or someone reminiscing about an event. The variety of music and the situations it appears in throughout the novel indicate a conscious effort on the author’s part. The paper aims to examine how the various lyrical citations and musical references found throughout János Térey’s A Legkisebb Jégkorszak [The Shortest Ice Age] function as literary devices.

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Nem köpök a sírotokra

Author(s): Péter Demény / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2025

Schillinger Gyöngyvér: Rohadjon meg az összes. Kalligram, Bp., 2024.

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Identitáskonstrukciók Kaffka Margit Színek és évek és Erdős Renée A nagy sikoly című művében

Author(s): Alexandra Balog / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2024

The past decade of historic research in Hungarian literature has shown that we meet women writers and acknowledge them increasingly, we know of all the important feminist movements, but we have never really outlined an actual picture of literature written by women as a whole. We don’t exactly get straight answers if we only approach this part of literature from a gender/sex-oriented point of view, but we are no closer to an answer even if we were to disregard it. My study focuses on two novels, Kaffka Margit Színek és évek (Colours and years) and Erdős Renée A nagy sikoly (The big scream), and furthermore it highlights the question of exclusion from the literary canon and opens a discussion on how the then relevant social ideals reflected on identity through the lens of narrative psychology.

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Máté Zsuzsanna: Az ember tragédiája a művészetekben – az összehasonlító művészettudomány felől

Author(s): Márta Tuba / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2024

Zsuzsanna Máté’s book Az ember tragédiája a művészetekben – az összehasonlító művészettudomány felől (The Tragedy of Man in the Arts – From the Perspective of Comparative Art Studies) was published on the 200th anniversary of Imre Madách’s birth.

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Anyanyelvünk külföldön. Magyar próza francia nyelven

Author(s): Gyula Sz. Tóth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2024

Two French anthologies of Hungarian prose: from Etelka to the Szekler Sabbatarians. A bilingual anthology from the Enlightenment to late Romanticism. Hungarian myths. Mythological criticism essays.

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Egy nagy, kanyargó könyvtár szereplője

Author(s): Péter Demény / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2025

Bányai Éva, Demeter Zsuzsa, Egyed Emese (szerk.): Bálint Tibor 90 – Textusok, kontextusok. Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, Kvár, 2023

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К двухсотлетию рождения Шандора Петефи

Author(s): Mihály Péter / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1-2/2023

The paper presents some examples of Petőfi’s lyrical poetry that are well-known by Hungarian readers as well as their Russian translations made by authoritative poets-translators. The poem «Раз на кухню залетел я» [‘Into the kitchen door I strolled…’] is a real gem of verbal genre-painting, written in a popular, playful tone, exploring the contrast of the poet’s gone out pipe and flared up heart. The poem «Если ты цветок…» [‘I’ll be a tree…’] consists of a series of grammatical conditional constructions with metaphoric relations to natural phenomena. The poeм «Неудавшийся замысел…» [‘Plans gone up in smoke…’] is actually a short story about the poet’s deep devotion to his mother. The poem «Одно меня тревожит…» [‘One thought keeps…’] may be regarded as the apex of Petőfi’s revolutionary poetry, appearing as a grand vision of the coming victory of nations in their worldwide struggle for freedom against tyranny.

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Mészáros Tibor: Egy 20. századi Odüsszeia. Márai Sándor élete I–II.

Author(s): Gábor Csanda / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2025

According to the review, the work presents in a complex way the stages of Márai's life with his related works, his relationship with his family, his acquaintances, the community of writers, and the world.

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Pszichohistóriai történetek a 19. század magyar irodalmából

Author(s): Anita Apollónia Nagy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 04/2025

Milbacher Róbert: Ködképek az irodalom láthatárán. Fejezetek klasszikus irodalmunk lelki életéből. Magvető, Bp., 2024.

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