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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451864203321

Titolo

Ocean at the window [[electronic resource] ] : Hungarian prose and poetry since 1945 / / Albert Tezla, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1980

ISBN

0-8166-5517-0

1-4356-0629-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (526 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TezlaAlbert

Disciplina

894/.511/08003

Soggetti

Hungarian literature - 20th century

Balkan literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. [439]-474.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Major Developments in the Imaginative Literature of Hungary since 1945; How to Pronounce Hungarian Words; PART ONE: Authors from 1945 to 1965; István Örkény; Iván Mándy; Miklós Mészöly; János Pilinszky; Ágnes Nemes Nagy; László Nagy; Ferenc Sánta; Ferenc Juhász; Sándor Csoóri; István Csurka; PART TWO: Authors since 1965; Anna Jókai; László Marsall; István Császár; Dezso Tandori; Anna Kiss; József Utassy; Gábor Czakó; Miklós Veress; Benedek Kiss; György Petri; Géza Bereményi; Vilmos Csaplár; Szilveszter Ördögh; Miklós Vámos

Anthologies of Twentieth-Century Hungarian Literature and Writings of the Authors in the Present Work in English, French, and German TranslationContributors

Sommario/riassunto

Hungary, after World War II, was a country torn apart by political conflict. Hungarians struggled to survive a long alliance with Germany, Soviet occupation, assumption of power by the Communist part, and the bloody revolution of 1956. The years since that uprising have witnessed the consolidation of a single-party socialist state producing a profound effect not only on the economic and social life of the nation but also on the cultural policies that govern the arts. This volume collects the work of Hungarian authors who, in spite of the turmoil and



uncertainty of those years, have developed a