Irodalomtörténet-írás és ideológia Erdélyben 1918–1964 között

Author(s): Ildikó Molnár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: III/2016

Based on the life-work of Elemér Jancsó, a literature-historian from Transylvania, the study analyzes the research history of the literature from Transylvania between 1919 and 1969. Jancsó was a prominent figure of the period of the rearrangements following the World War I, he shared the identity-seeking endeavours of the 1930s, as well as the Transylvanian academic efforts following 1944. Between 1945 and 1947 he was a teacher at the Department of Hungarian Literary Studies of the Bolyai University from Cluj, since February 1947 he had been dean of the Faculty of Letters and director of the Institute of the Hungarian Literature-history. From the summer of 1948 he edited the textbooks for Hungarian literature together with Gyula Csehi and Gábor Gaál. Between 1945 and 1949 he taught modern literature, between 1949 and 1959 the literature-history of the Enlightenment, and for eight years theHungarian literature of the 20th century. In 1969 he edited The Hungarian Literature in the Enlightenment, a textbook addressed to his students. Our paper studies the methodology of the literature-history writing through the life-work of Jancsó from the 1930’ and afterwards, because starting from 1945 the “building of the socialism” and the “cultural revolution” rewrote both the methodology of the literature-history writing and the teaching practice of the history of the literature.

A Szatmár Megyei Könyvtár kincsei

Author(s): Márta Cordea / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: III/2016

The old book collection constituted at Satu Mare County Library, contains a large thesaurus of precious and rare book, covering the period XV–XIX centuries, the early twentieth century, periodicals and manuscripts. The existing old books, are distinguished by the beauty of the craft, originated from famous printing and publishing houses in Europe, as well as by rarity. Satu Mare special collections, in respect of the size and value, occupies one of the first places of rare books from the county library network in the country. Our article makes a brief presentation of this valuable collection.

"Valami csillagszerű gravitáció"

Author(s): Andrea Heinrich / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 07/2013

A lustaság fenomenológiája

Author(s): Péter Bálint / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2013

Ütközéses identitásmenedzselés ideológiai beágyazásban

Author(s): Erzsébet Dani / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2014

A Wohl-nővérek emancipációja

Author(s): Zsuzsa Török / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2015

The paper provides a social historical analysis of the writing career of Janka Wohl and Stephanie Wohl. It proposes that periodicals were instrumental in shaping writers' life work, and that the press of the time requires particular attention when studying the 19thcentury history of authorship. It is based on the analysis of Stephanie Wohl's only letter of biographical relevance and on the wider, contextual presentation of some of the statements in the letter. The paper follows the life of the Wohl girls starting with a description of their family background and their education, until their career as writers and editors. It also discusses their reception in contemporary society and social life. The life of the Wohl sisters unfolds in the context of two significant social historical processes of the 19th-century: assimilated Jewish intellectuals and the emancipation of women. Their ambitions as writers are coupled with a strong assimilation urge, while the roots of this are explained through a presentation of the wider context of their family history. For them, the “life form” of the intellectual, which guaranteed integration into the society of Hungarian language and culture, was attainable through a fellowship with the Lutheran intelligentsia. And the Lutheran environment explains not only their writing activity, but also their skills to get along and act as organizers in the social life of their time.

O murze, którym była rzeka. Lament nad Dunajem Mihálya Kornisa

Author(s): Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiert / Language(s): Polish Issue: 24/2015

In the first part of the article, the author presents a few crucial political and historical events which have an association with the situation of the in 1944-45 Budapest. The politics of the Arrow Cross Party, very similar to German Nazis, led to the mass execution of Jewish citizens on the Danube river. The main purpose of the article is to analyse a short story by the Hungarian writer Mihály Kornis. In The Jewish Danube he raises the thorny issue of the memory of the murdered people, and in doing so creates a blasphemous and provocative text, in which he tries to break the taboo subject of genocide.

Panonizam u interliterarnoj poziciji

Author(s): Éva Toldi / Language(s): English,Croatian Issue: 1/2016

The paper explores the connection between landscape and poetic creation on the example of Hungarian poetry in Vojvodina. The theoretical elaboration in this paper uses the semantic field of the term panonism as defined by Sanja Jukic and Goran Rem in their Panonism of Croatian poetry I-II. This paper expands this Pannonianistic reading and presents a potential reading for the Hungarian poetry written in Vojvodina, in which the landscape, the relation between the lyric self and the landscape, and the critical reception of landscape poetry have such an important role that they would make possible the writing of a history of this regional landscape unit.

Extending Horizons

Author(s): Attila Debreczeni / Language(s): English Issue: 01/1997

The review of: A felvilágosodás korának magyar irodalma (Hungarian Literature in the Age of Enlightenment) by Ferenc Bíró; Budapest: Balassi Kiadó, 1994, 450 pp.

The BRB Guide to Budapest—Writers by the Score

Author(s): András Török / Language(s): English Issue: 02/1997

Hungarian literature has always been much talked about and regarded with great respect—inside Hungary, that is. During the “hard” dictatorship (roughly 1949-65), the few privileged writers were paid small fortunes, even for translations. Later, during the long-drawn-out years of the “soft” dictatorship, writers and poets received more indirect support. They were given cushy jobs at publishers and their books were printed in much higher print runs than necessary—if they were necessary at all. When the writer reached his or her 50th birthday, a Collected Works was almost certain to be launched. This meant that reprints of all major (and minor) works were guaranteed, regardless of whether the readers demanded them or not.

Hasonlatok a Szigeti veszedelem szövegében

Author(s): Ilona Rajsli / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

The similes are very significant stylistic devices in Zrínyi’sheroic poem. The study makes an attempt for the typology of the similes traceable in the text of the Szige- ti veszedelem [The Siege of Sziget], respectively the structural and semantics examination of the stylistic element. Taking the formal features into consideration there can be equally found full and plain similes with formal editing in the text, this latter type is present in greater strength.According to the typology with a syntactic approach, in the analysed corpus mode comparison is the most frequent, but the similes may refer to the utterance of measure, to the degree of the act and quality that came about in the stylistic device. Besides the formally easily recognisable (explicit) stylistic elements the implicit forms of comparison are especially expressive, where the semantic distance between the similar and the comparative one is substantial. Those text places deserve particular analysis, where the pictorial element can be put into the boundary of the simile and the metaphor. The study analyses the structural construction of the similes, as well as the figures being composed of several cumulative similes in Baroque style.In the course of the analysis with a semantics aspect, in the characteristic vocabulary of the similes,are primarily touched uponthe variety of the natural phenomena, of the wild fauna and flora, and that of the fictional beings.

Irodalom az induló Vajdasági havi és hetilapokban

Author(s): Valéria Balázs-Arth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

This study forms part of a bigger research, the subject of which being the presence of literature in the Hungarian nationality papersof the new state, Yugoslavia between 1947–1952. The study analyses the literary materials of the first one or two years after the launching of the first monthly sheet Vajdasági Dolgozó Nő [Vojvodinan Working Woman], Dolgozó Nő [Working Woman], Ifjúság Szava [Word of Youth], 7 Nap [7 Days] and the Dolgozók [Workers] trade-union papers, certainly dealing with the launch of these papers as well.It takes into consideration the literary works published in the papers: the writings of Hungarian writers from Vojvodinan, of Southern Slav, Hungarian and that of foreign authors’ and poets’.

A falu emlékezete – virtuális falvak, mikrovilágok és novellaalakzatok

Author(s): Gabriella Lódi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2016

The traditional literary representation of the village has completely changed in the contemporary literature. It is no longer the symbol of isolation, narrow-mindedness, of a non-informative medium, but that of the individuality and originality. The depiction of the local scenes from an ironic, parodistic aspect characterizes the writings of the younger generation. The documentation of the micro worlds and over-mythologization of the village-situations manoeuvre the texts. All stories are related, get written further and take a shape in a closed space of a micro community that already transforms its characters with undetermined identity and its discouraged readers into the virtual literary medium.

Węgierski Październik ’56 oczami dziecka. Trzy (warianty) lektury

Author(s): Daniel Warmuz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 29/2016

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate three possible methods of reading and interpreting three consequent literary works on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 that describe the events from a perspective of an adolescent boy. The mentioned works are the following: The Radiance of Childhood (Gyermekkor tündöklete) by István Kovács, Hungarian Revolution 1956: Diary (Magyar Forradalom 1956. Napló) by Gyula Csics and Kalef by Zsolt Berta. The first demonstrated approach provides a documentary-like look on the October 1956 that is given by dint of (auto) biographical elements or diaristic form. The second method ensures much closer analysis of the Hungarian history across time (before, during and after the Revolution) and space (Hungarian country and Budapest). The third approach targets the aspects of initiation into adulthood, masculinity and Hungarian history of the 20th century that allows to read the three stories as a novels of initiation.

Pośmiertne życie rewolucji. O Dzienniku węgierskim Wiktora Woroszylskiego z perspektywy „nieustającej w swym ruchu historii”

Author(s): Agata Stankowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 29/2016

The article is devoted to the Hungarian revolution in 1956, witnessed and described by Wiktor Woroszylski in his Hungarian diary. His report from the fighting Budapest is as important as the comments added in 1976, 1981, 1986, and 1989, the milestones of the Polish way to freedom, described by one of its participants. In the comments, Woroszylski creates a vision of “history incessant in its movement”, marked by hope and disappointment. The author points out to similarities and relationships between freedom uprisings in various Soviet-dominated countries of Central Europe.

USKLIČNIK

Author(s): Sava Babić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 424/2003

ODLAŽEM I ČEKAM. Posle pročitane knjige Lajoša Kesegija znao sam da je moram prevoditi. Na istom smo tragu: Hamvaš, Lajoš Sabo, Niče... Iskustvo koje je on pribrao fermentovalo se u odista kratke zapise. Ali se naslućuje pređeni dugi put i nađeni izlaz.

U VOZOVIMA EVROPSKE KLASE

Author(s): Zoran Đerić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 424/2003

Vraćam se iz Varšave za Lođ, Tvimom (vozom koji nosi ime čuvenog Lođanina, Julijana Tuvima, pesnika koji je tu rođen i sahranjen, na Jevrejskom groblju, jednom od najvećih u Evropi) i čitam novine u kojima pronalazim vest o novom dobitniku Nobelove nagrade za književnost.

Balázs Orbán’ın “Yurtdışı Hayatımdan Sayfalar” I

Author(s): Vural Yıldırım / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 31/2016

Essay

Apokalipszisképzetek Pilinszky János lírájában

Author(s): Slezák Lázár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2016

„Én ordítoztam a dobozban”

Author(s): Patyerek Réka / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2016