Former Avant-garde Women Writers Abroad, or the Transnational Strategies of Jolán Földes and Erzsébet Kádár(-Karr) Cover Image

Valaha volt avantgárd nőírók külföldön, avagy Földes Jolán és Kádár(-Karr) Erzsébet transznacionális érvényesülési stratégiái
Former Avant-garde Women Writers Abroad, or the Transnational Strategies of Jolán Földes and Erzsébet Kádár(-Karr)

Author(s): Györgyi Földes
Subject(s): Theory of Literature
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: avant-garde; fiction; multilingual; transnational; women writers

Summary/Abstract: Erzsébet Kádár-Karr and Jolán Földes both started out as poets in the avant-garde journal Ma, edited by Lajos Kassák, the former publishing expressionist poems in 1918-1919, the latter in 1919. Another common feature of their careers is that from the 1920s they tried to make a name for themselves abroad publishing fiction, they were also involved in foreign film production, and they both won literary prizes. Erzsébet Kádár ‒ as a left-wing émigré under the name Elisabeth Karr ‒ published mostly in German, but in several European countries, while Jolán Földes tried to make her work available on the book market in many languages and language areas. The paper presents the transnational career strategies of the two women writers.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 24-36
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Hungarian
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