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The article focuses on illness and death of Hungarian writer József Eötvös.

Representations of gender crossing go back to a rich tradition in Hungarian literature. The most conspicuous achievements for performing gender passing on the authorial plane are epitomized in such fictionalized female literary alter egos as Erzsébet Lónyay (Sándor Weöres), Lili Csokonai (Péter Esterházy), and Jolán Sárbogárdi (Lajos Parti Nagy). Providing a unique sensibility to seek out innovative forms that could accommodate interrogations into distancing gender, it is a legacy that finds continuation in the works of a new generation of young Hungarian prose writers. By conducting closereadings of literary pieces by two present-day writers, Pál Hegyi's paper endeavors to give instances of how gender passing is transposed from the authorial plane to the level of narratives. The short stories "Karambol" ['Crash'] by Ádám Berta and "Pertu" ['On Intimate Terms'] by Edina Szvoren will be interpreted to adumbrate distancing narrative strategies for crossing gender boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In my interdisciplinary analysis of foodways which combines Gender Studies with Holocaust Studies, I aim to demonstrate the cultural and gendered significance of the wartime sharing of recipes among starving women prisoners in concentration camps. This study will further discuss the continuing importance of food talk and food writing in the aftermath of the Holocaust, with an emphasis on the memory work of Hungarian survivors and their descendants. Fantasy cooking and recipe creation, or "cooking with the mouth," as it was called in many camps, was a way for many inmates to maintain their identities and connections to their ethnic and family history, a survival technique that may have influenced the depiction of food memories and their continuing role in the postwar memoir writing of survivor women. I will also examine the continued use of food talk as a genealogy of intergenerational remembrance and transmission in the post-memory writing of second-generation and even third-generation daughters and (very occasionally) sons of Hungarian origin. Studying multigenerational Holocaust alimentary writing has become particularly urgent today because we are approaching a biological and cultural caesura, at which juncture direct survivors will disappear and we will need new forms of transmission to reshape Holocaust memories for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two Hungarian authors, Sándor Márai and Péter Nádas, seem to have one thing in common: their attraction to triangular relationships. Written between 1935 and 1942 and portraying human relations in pre-World War II Hungary, Márai's two novels and one drama all turn on a very specific triangular structure between two close friends and the woman whom they both love(d). Now they conduct a painful tête-à-tête to decide on the final ownership (or simply fate) of the woman. Written in 1979 and portraying human relations in communist Hungary, Nádas's play has only two actors on stage, a woman of aristocratic descent and a young man, the son of a high-ranking communist official, the woman's long dead lover. This exchange between the two characters opens into an encounter of three, where the woman and the young man each use the other as a mediator to reach the third, the lover/father. Bollobás argues that the triangles displayed by the two authors represent two distinct types: the former is informed by fixed, hierarchical, subjectobject power relations, while the latter by fluid, non-hierarchical, subject-subject relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Hungarian populist writers Gyula Illyés and Lajos Nagy visited the Soviet Union together during the summer of 1934 as guests of the Union of Soviet Writers. Upon their return to Hungary, Illyés and Nagy published their impressions in separate travelogues.Although they both stressed that they strived for objectivity in their travel reports, they did not fully succeed in their efforts. Their perspectives were colored by a feeling of cultural superiority carried over from their experiences in the Hungary of the 1930s. Their writing was also tainted with anti-Semitism, as evidenced by their reflections on the life of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. Although their hosts took them to model institutions on a government-designed grand tour, they were not won over to the communist cause and failed to become fellow travelers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lajos Szádeczky Kardoss (1859-1935) being an eminent scholar published a lot of books and studies, predominantly from the Transylvanian and Hungarian history of the 16- 17th centuries. He became a professor at the University of Budapest and later at the universities of Kolozsvár and Szeged. His style can be characterized as a vivid, picturesque and Romantic description of the events. However, he can be considered a positivist historian basing his statements ever on archival sources, which he often added as an appendix to his monographs. He published most of his studies between 1882 and 1898 on the Ottoman era of Hungary. His most outstanding volumes were written about the age of Michael voivode (The history of Transylvania and Michael, 1882-1883; republished in 1893) and about the Transylvanian and Polish ruler, Stephen Báthory (The Election of Stephen Báthory as a Polish King, 1887). He also published smaller monographies about other historical personalities (Gáspár Bekes; Farkas Kovacsóczy; Maria Christierna - wife of Sigismund Báthory; Imre Thököly) and besides a lot of other studies and source publications. The author of this study analyzes the works of Lajos Szádeczky-Kardoss, whom he regards a great historian and a good patriot. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses a short story written in 1900 by Kálmán Mikszáth (1847-1910), a major Hungarian author. The plot narrates the genesis and the consequences of a strange last will, which bequeaths a substantial amount of money to two trees. The plot is partly funny, partly uncanny, and evolves rather slowly, in accordance with the long and rather inactive life cycles of trees. It is not so much the plot, however, that is interesting, but rather the ethical discourse of the personae in how to deal with the trees. Due to the exceptional legal situation, various people start regarding the trees as persons and have difficulties in making decisions about them. While it would be an overstatement to say that Mikszáth wrote a prototext of environmental justice, he definitely challenged some ideas of his times and asked important questions about possible ethical approaches to nature. Legal issues are ubiquitous in world literature, but the world of law is usually limited to human affairs. As soon as trees are treated as legal subjects, they seem to become persons. Usually the development is the reverse in legal reasoning: if one is a person, one has rights. Therefore the short story is a sort of thought-experiment: what if we regard the non-human world as having rights? And the result is a paradigm shift we can nowadays make use of, accepting that justice is not or should not be limited to just the human sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the works of the much disputed and until recently often avoided oeuvre of Herczeg Ferenc is the attention-grabbing work entitled Szelek szárnyán [On the Wings of the Wind] (1905). a travelogue and a ship's Jog. Its analysis casts another view on the life of this writer, bom in South Banat. who. at the beginning of the 20th century, sailed the Adriatic and the Mediterranean with his nephew in his sailing boat called Sirály (The Seagull) - thus demonstrating and choosing a secessionist lifestyle, even abandoning Budapest -, and his inspiration by the sea reached a peak in this volume (Secessionist in every sense, advertising the beauties and values of the Adriatic). This prose work was created in the context of Rijeka, Zadar, Sibenik. Trogir, Split, Dubrovnik, and Boka Kotorska. which (apart from its Secessionist character), owing to its cross-artistic and multicultural features, blends various art forms and ways of expression. It gives a superb experience to the reader. The study interprets and analyses Ferenc Herczeg's volume Szelek szárnyán as a complex genre created in a cross-artistic environment, with the objective to emphasize and present its special role and standing in Hungarian literature as well as in the field of fine and applied arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents accounts of seven travelogues, written by Hungarian travellers and professionals who visited or worked in Manchuria between the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. So far these texts have not received wide scholarly attention because they are accessible only in Hungarian, although they contain unique first-hand observations of the construction of the Eastern Chinese Railway and many ethnographic notes. The author suggests that some narratives, especially those written by Hungarians who worked as engineering specialists, present very balanced analysis of the situation, because they belonged neither to the colonising project in China, nor to the colonised side, but rather were enthusiasts of technological modernisation. As a theoretical frame, the author attempts to apply notions and concepts developed by infrastructural and cybernetic anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author introduces the journal's section dedicated to the narrations of three authors from Hungary, or of Hungarian origins, relating their experiences as children or college students in France during the 20th century.

This article provides an overview of nineteenth-century Hungarian travel accounts on Mexico and examines their relationship with Western European and United States travelogues. How did Hungarian travelers relate to images projected by Western accounts? How did their Hungarian/Central European background influence and alter such images? This article shows that the first Hungarian travel writers not only built on but also identified with concepts promoted by "imperial" travelers, calling attention to the power of Western texts in the representation of Mexico. A new wave of travelers at the end of the century tried to break away from the previous discourse and began to call for alternative approaches to Mexico. Based on texts so far unstudied in this context and mostly available in Hungarian only, the analysis offers new insights into the mechanics of travel writing and describes a struggle for a more just depiction of Mexico, a process also influenced by Hungarian self-perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the second half of the 19th century, the Hungarian government began to introduce maps and atlases in education that were made by Hungarian authors. This policy required that the authors and publishers work out a system of writing the geographical names that considered the international trends of cartography as well as respected the tradition of writing certain foreign names in Hungarian. This paper reviews the development of the spelling of geographical names in Hungary. The examples come from various parts of the world that represent different writing systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the basis of mostly unpublished sources, the author reconstructs the life of the Hungarian writer Viktor von Dirsztay (1884?-1935) who was personally acquainted with many expressionist artists and writers, e.g. with Karl Kraus, Oskar Kokoschka, Herwarth Walden, Walter Hasenclever, Hermann Broch and Arthur Schnitzler. This association puts Freud into closer proximity with the cultural avant-garde of his times than previously realized. Between 1910 and 1920 Dirsztay underwent several phases of analysis with Freud; then he was treated by Theodor Reik. The overall length of his analysis with Freud is almost unparalleled. The article discusses whether and in which way Dirsztay's writings might have been influenced by his analyses and how Freud and Reik might have drawn upon their experiences with this patient. It is argued that likely references can be discovered in both authors' theories of masochism. There is an intriguing late remark of Dirsztay's that he was 'ruined by analysis'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the spring of 1989 Carl Tighe applied to the British Council Specialist Tours Department for a research grant to go to Hungary to talk with writers about their work and their relationship to the state. By the time the tour happened in December 1990, communism had collapsed, the map of Europe had changed massively and the theme of the research was irrelevant. Instead of cancelling the visit he used it to talk to writers about the change to democracy and how it affected them. He heard writers debate the urgent need to re-think the Hungarian national identity, saw them abandon writing and leap into the new politics, and witnessed the sudden re-emergence of anti-Semitism and anti-Gypsy feeling as serious political strategies. Here he recounts his visit and draws attention to the development of these elements, in particular the growth of the radical nationalist party, Jobbik, and events during the 2009 European elections in Hungary. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents the transcript of the speech "To Be or Not to Be," given by Dezső Kosztolányi to the General Meeting of the Hungarian Writers' Society on February 2, 1930. In it the speaker discusses the life and worldview of the Hungarian statesman István Széchenyi, including a detailed anecdote describing his personality and commentary on the importance of his work on 19th-century Hungarian identity.

This article relates the history of the Hungarian publishing house "Nova." A medium-sized enterprise, "Nova" published a financially profitable mix of foreign bestsellers in translation, well known and promising younger Hungarian authors, and political classics, like Karl Marx. Before World War II the press was criticized for being leftist. In 1944 the enterprise was confiscated as Jewish property. The owners survived, and reopened after the war. Publishing mainly Western and apolitical Hungarian authors, they were criticized as bourgeois and decadent by the new Communist regime. "Nova" was among the first private enterprises to be nationalized in 1949.

This article focuses on the visit of the Hungarian author Kazinczy Ferencz to the Romanian city of Sibiu (called Hermannstadt in German) in Transylvania (a historical region of Romania). The visit was a part of a tour through Romania that Ferencz undertook in 1816. Several topics are discussed, including how he traveled to Sibiu to see an art gallery, called the Brukenthas Art Gallery, how he described his experiences and his opinions about the country in numerous letters that were later published in a book titled "Letters from Transylvania," and how Ferencz described a meeting between him and a member of the Brukenthal Foundation, a foundation dedicated to preserving historic monuments and art in Romania, named Johann Friedrich Seiwert.

A personal narrative is presented of the author's experiences as a teenager coming of age in Hungary during the Cold War.

Using the Hungarian-Romanian border as a solid example, this paper will attempt to prove how borders have changed from the hard, close, exclusive border to the soft, open, inclusive frontier. We have highlighted the Hungarian and Romanian authors' scientific contributions, with a special emphasis on the members of the Debrecen-Oradea Euroregional Studies Institute (IERS), the "Jean Monnet" European Centre of Excellence, as well as on the developed joint projects. These contributions have created a certain level of expertise in the development of cross-border cooperation that could be transferred for the benefit of similar situations, arisen with the EU enlargement eastwards, such as the EU's eastern frontier on the Slovak-Hungarian-Ukrainian-Romanian-Moldovan section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses national traits, in particular those that culturally distinguish two literary citizens of Austria and Hungary. The examples of Austrian writer Robert Menasse and Hungarian author Peter Esterhazy are adduced to compare their respective cultures as revealed in each novelist's opening speech at the 1999 Frankfurt Book Fair about their native country. The Austrian literary tendency to reject postmodernism is noted as are Esterhazy's satirical cross-references between German orderliness and "euphoric" Hungarian culture.

The article discusses the variety of approaches adopted by Hungarian writer and journalist Gyula Krúdy to the dramatic possibilities that fascinate readers in the unpredictable mix of fact and fiction. It is noted that the key characteristic of his literary work lies in the interplay of its diverse forms and contents and the complex shifts of narrative viewpoints. An analysis of several of his novels is also presented, including "The Crimson Coach."

Sándor Márai is recognized as one of the most significant Hungarian authors of the twentieth century. His background, life, and novels also display strong Austrian and German components. This study presents a political-historical reading of his classic novel Embers (1942) and contends that the rivalry between two former military comrades narrated in the novel serves as an indication of the destabilization and disintegration of the Habsburg Monarchy. Yet as the rivals agree at a reunion forty years after their confrontation, the cultural and social milieu of former Austro-Hungary, however outdated, compares very favorably with the brutal political environment of the 1940s in Central Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article profiles the late Hungarian novelist Sándor Márai. Marai was born in Kassa, Hungary in 1900. He went abroad to study after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, returned to Hungary in 1928 and lived there until finally going into exile in 1948 when the country fell into the hands of the Bolsheviks. Marai was a restless traveller and considers himself an inveterate occidental. His travels and views figure prominently in his works as he searched for identity during his exile.

Presents an excerpt from chapter 19 of the transcribed text of interviews with Hungarian writer, Miklós Szentkuthy, conducted on January 6-May 7, 1983.

Focuses on Hungarian authors who became famous in the international literary world. Career history of Attila Jozsef, considered as the country's greatest 20th century poet; Novels published by Antal Szerb that brought him international renown; Plot of "Embers," the most successful international book of writer Sandor Marai. INSETS: The Hungarian Book Foundation.;Hungarian Websites for Literature in Translation..

Focuses on the works written by Hungarian traveller honorary bishop Peter Vay about Korea at the turn of the 20th century. Participation in the celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign; Detailed biography of Vay written by Hungarian Archbishop Janos Csernoch.

The article presents a reflection on the work of Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukàcs (also referred to as György Lukàcs). Topics include the reasons for his converting to Marxism between 1917 and 1919, an overview of his career, and the common theme in his books being a significant aversion to modernism and avant-garde philosophy movements such as German Expressionism and socialism.

Profiles the Hungarian author, Miklós Szentkuthy. Career history of Szentkuthy; Books published; Contributions to the development of Hungarian literature; Reasons why some critics called Szentkuthy a monster; Literary style of Szentkuthy.

Details a Hungarian author's experience of attending the 2004 Moscow Book Fair in Russia. Reaction of the author to the publication of the Russian translation of his novel; Status of the book publishing trade in the country.

The article focuses on the use of Hungarian course books, based on modern pedagogical principles, by students in Hungary. According to the author, students should read books prepared by Hungarian authors because they are designed to cope with students specific difficulties when learning a foreign language. He cites the first Russian course book used in Hungary to support his view regarding the importance of determining the author in a book. He stresses that it is wrong when elementary school textbooks from a foreign country are used as language course books.

The article presents excerpts from the poem "Persian Songs" ("Perzsa dalok"), by István Vas.