Barakkból palota. Az erdélyi magyar irodalmi élet 1918–1944
From a Barrack to a Palace. Hungarian literature in Transylvania 1918-1944

Summary/Abstract: Hungarian literature in Transylvania is a forced consequence of Trianon, the local expansion of post-Ady modernism. It is the expression of the literary, cultural, and political aspirations that successfully counteracted the intellectual suction of Budapest from the last third of the 19th century onwards. With Trianon, centralisation ceased in Transylvania as well, and the task of literature became to ensure autonomy and spiritual unity (the Erdélyi Szépmíves Céh was established in 1924, the Korunk in 1926, the same year in which the Marosvécs writers’ meeting was held, and the Erdélyi Helikon dates to 1928). After the Second Vienna Award, Hungarian literature in Transylvania split into two countries. In Northern Transylvania, the Hungarians became the majority again, while the Hungarian literary life and press in Southern Transylvania, which had remained under Romanian rule, were in a hopeless situation. The study is a summary of the Hungarian literary societies, press, journals, institutions, newspaper and book publishing, competitions, prizes, scholarships, awards, debates, anecdotes, and critical life in Transylvania between 1918-44.

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