Az irodalmi szöveg instabilitása és a műalkotás változó kontextusai

Author(s): Zoltán Szénási / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2020

The publication history of Mihály Babits’ poem Fortissimo is exceptional from several perspectives. The March 1 issue of the journal Nyugat was confiscated in 1917 because of the poem, and prosecution began against the author. Afterwards, the poem was circulated in typed- and handwritten copies, and in that very same year it was published in French, and then in two anthologies in German the following year. Fortissimo became available again in Hungarian only after the Aster Revolution in the volume entitled A diadalmas forradalom könyve [The Book of the Triumphant Revolution], and a few days later in the literary journal, Nyugat. This paper, applying the methodology of historical bibliography, examines how the changing material context of Fortissimo influences the poem’s interpretability from the first stage of its existence to its re-publication in the volume.

Pilátus udvarában II. A terápiás írás mintázatai Szabó Magda regényében

Author(s): Márton Soltész / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2021

Szorul a haza

Author(s): Péter Demény / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 10/2021

Tompa Andrea: Haza. Jelenkor, Bp., 2020.

Egy Kántor-hagyatékban talált dokumentumról. Újabb adalék a Kántor Láng-irodalomtörténethez

Author(s): Júlia Jakab / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2021

The paper investigates how a recently found document that contains a summary of literary developments of 1970s Hungarian literature from Romania can complete the literary history written by Gusztáv Láng and Lajos Kántor. While presenting the unpublished epilogue to their book, the aim of the article is to compare it with the second edition of Kántor–Láng Romániai magyar irodalom 1944–1970, with the supplemented version publi-shed in 1982, part of the socalled „Spenót /Sóska” (Béládi ed., A magyar irodalom története 1945–1975. IV. A határon túli magyar irodalom), as well as to seek an answer to whether the authors discussed in the Romanian language document are present with similar emphasis in the Száz év kaland. Lastly, the overview reflects on Zoltán Bertha’s and András Görömbei’s book A hetvenes évek romániai magyar irodalma, in order to highlight comparatively the criteria, perspectives and intentions of the authors.

Szkülla és Kharübdisz között

Author(s): Péter Cseke / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2021

The author presents the innovative views of playwright Géza Páskándi about the theatre of the late 1960s and the 1970s. Páskándi published during this period several selfreflexive articles about the theatre of the absurd, and published also plays in Korunk. The article discusses Páskándi’s plays in the context of the articles and of the critical debates.

A kortárs író. Miklós Bánffy: The Enchanted Night

Author(s): Júlia-Réka Vallasek / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 11/2021

In a review article about Miklós Bánffy’s The Enchanted Night, a collection of short stories published in English translation, the author identifies as the main strategy of the translator an attempt to offer a view of Bánffy as a contemporary writer. Besides characteristics in the narrative that are stressed through selection, a special focus on the female characters is also discussed as a possibility to see Bánffy as a contemporary writer.

László Krasznahorkai's War and war as an apocalyptic metahistorical novel

Author(s): Judit Görözdi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

This paper looks at a novel by László Krasznahorkai in the context of the narrative turn in history, which also stimulated a revaluation of the fictional historical narrative. War and War was one of a series of Hungarian historical novels, or mixed novel formations with a historical theme, published at the turn of the millennium, whose primary aim was not to recount a self-assured historical tale but rather to highlight, via the story, the models/schemas/shifts/blank spaces in our present-day comprehension of the past. This paper interprets the novel with reference to historic-philosophical conceptions (Löwith, Koselleck), tracks its references to the Judaeo-Christian tradition, and argues that it transforms the teleological idea of the historical process into an apocalyptic model of history.

Levels of transculturalism and bilingualism in the Hungarian literature of Slovakia

Author(s): Zoltán Németh / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The phenomenon of transculturalism is capable of activating and generating meaning within various spaces, levels and layers of literature. The study discusses different levels of transculturalism through certain authors and texts in Slovakian Hungarian literature, along with transcultural authorial identity, the 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 of the transcultural phenomena we encounter and to unravel the relevant conceptual and interpretative levels.

Hiába mentek el

Author(s): Péter Demény / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 12/2021

Mohácsi Árpád: Párizsi befutó. Kalligram 2021.

Az anyaarchetípus megjelenési formái Hajnal Anna és Weöres Sándor anyasiratójában

Author(s): Anikó Polgár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2-3/2020

A vádlott: Ady Endre. Perújítás – kérdőjelekkel

Author(s): Márton Soltész / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2-3/2020

Smá Jiszróel. József Attila „zsidózó” verse

Author(s): András Lengyel / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2-3/2020

Egy köztesség meghatározása

Author(s): Imre József Balázs / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2021

Béla Markó’s early poetry can be described as being situated in-between two generational poetics. Markó published his first volume of poetry in 1974, in a period when the political situation in Romania was undergoing an important change. After a relatively liberal approach to culture during the late 1960’s, Romanian communism began shifting during the 1970s towards another episode of Stalinist cultural politics described as national communism. Markó’s poetry marks this shift with a disillusioned approach, and his poetry can be described as shifting from a nostalgic, community-oriented poetics towards an avant-garde imagery and a more reflexive approach of poetry. The article describes this shift by referring to the reception of Markó’s early volumes.

A simlis hírlapíró esete az elnéző szerkesztőkkel

Author(s): András Wirágh / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2021

Throughout his life, László Cholnoky (1879−1929) was in close contact with Jewish journals such as Egyenlőség [‘Equality’], Múlt és Jövő [‘Past and Future’] and Remény [‘Hope’]. These journals published much more of his original texts than other Budapestian newspapers or journals, partially thanks to his “emancipatory tales” which he wrote specifically for them. In the beginning of the interwar period Cholnoky used these periodicals for publishing columns about literary political issues. Although Cholnoky drifted to the periphery of literary life only after 1925, prominent contemporaries considered the author a philosemite because of these columns already by 1920, making it more difficult for him to publish and maintain his existence. The study presents Cholnoky’s work in these papers and an interesting metamorphosis of a narrative published in Egyenlőség and Múlt és Jövő.

Munk Artúr A Hinterland című regényének kontextualizálása

Author(s): Erika Bence / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2021

The contemporary reception – mainly by Aladár Schöpflin and Ernő Kázmér, and partly by the critical evaluation of Szenteleky – and also some re-readings following the 1981 second edition, especially Imre Bori’s afterword, placed the novel in the context of the history of development basing this largely on aspects valid to this day, and considered Artúr Munk’s oeuvre in a semantic context, including the possible interpretations of the novels A nagy káder [The Great Cadre] published in 1930, and A hinterland [The Hinterland] published in 1933. This is exactly why, both in the second half of the 20th century and in our time, those efforts which have attempted to put Munk’s mentioned works in the service of various stereotypes, ideologies and unscientific endeavours are regarded unfounded or gratuitous from both historical- poetic and narratological point of view. The study examines the historical aspects of the source and reception of Artúr Munk’s novel A hinterland: A mögöttes országrész háborúja [Hinterland: The War of the Backcountry], and points out the neuralgic points, inoperability and long-term inexpedience of these approaches, setting up at the same time possible interpretative models and contexts so as to create a Munk portrait in the right perspective.

A verses regény műfajnév megjelenése és a műfajról való gondolkodás a magyar irodalom történetében

Author(s): Lenke Kocsis / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2021

The history of the creation and development of genres, the development and spread of a genre is generally one of the difficult to trace phenomena. One can talk about linearly developing and easily transparent processes only in exceptional cases, yet more likely about breakpoints that can in some ways be regarded as decisive. In the case of the verse novel, at least as regards Hungarian literature, the breaking and turning points that have led to the emergence of the existing views of the genre are clearly reviewable. The study takes into account the historical stand points which in some respects are important for the spread and recognition of the verse novel as a genre, and also, the development of thinking about it.

Állati narrátorok az erdélyi magyar prózában

Author(s): Zsuzsa Tapodi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: VIII/2021

Following a review of the world literature, the paper analyzes from the perspective of ecocriticism and that of the direction called Animal Turn some Hungarian works from Transylvania that present animals in the position of narrators. The narrator’s theme is approached following the aesthetic and ethical effects of the reception of the novels Zátony (Stumbling) by Lóránd Daday written in 1930 and of contemporary works written by Zsuzsa Selyem: Moszkvában esik (It’s Raining in Moscow. The Story of a Deportation), novel published in 2016, and the short story from 2019 A kemény vízen át a hold (Moon Th rough Rigid Water).

Molnár Péter: Garázda Péter sorsdöntő évei

Author(s): Gábor Kiss Farkas / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2021

Molnár Péter: Garázda Péter sorsdöntő évei. Irodalomtörténeti füzetek 182., 2019., 238 old. (https://www.reciti. hu/2020/5833)

Megjegyzések Szerdahelyi István A neoavantgardista stílusdiktatúra esélyei című írásának utóéletéhez

Author(s): József Havasréti / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 01/2022

István Szerdahelyi was a philosopher of aesthetics, editor, and one of the most prominent figures of literary politics in the Kádár era. This study analyses articles on literary politics published by Szerdahelyi in the eighties. These writings attacked from a conservative perspective the increasingly popular postmodern trends of the time, primarily the writer Péter Esterházy, and the historians of literature Mihály Szegedy-Maszák and Ernő Kulcsár Szabó. After the end of socialism, Szerdahelyi lost his high positions and joined the Nagy Lajos Társaság, a society of left-leaning literary scholars sympathetic to the preceding system of János Kádár. In this forum he gave voice to his opinion that his career did not fall victim to the change of political systems, but to the “Esterházy mania” and the postmodern “maffia of critics” worshiping Esterházy. This story unfolds from Szerdahelyi’s writings on literary politics and from a biographical interview with Szerdahelyi conducted by Erika Lajta, and it is an interesting, even if bizarre, part of the reception of postmodern trends in Hungary.

Felszámolódó testek, széteső szubjektumok: A fenséges Veres Attila Éjféli iskolák című novelláskötetében

Author(s): Ágota Tóth / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2020

The subgenres of weird and new weird are represented in relatively few works in contemporary Hungarian literature, but the two volumes by Attila Veres published so far are a worthy representative of the subgenre. This study examines Veres’ second volume – the volume of short stories entitled Éjféli iskolák (Midnight Schools) – primarily from the perspective of the sublime. According to the interpretation of Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, the sublime is accompanied by shivering, and often even dread. The cause of horror can be the encounter with eradication, the liquidation of body and language, the disintegration of the subject. The themes of Veres’s short stories are a good example of the intertwining of these problems – another concept that can be linked to both the subgenre and the sublime – with cosmic dread.