Why a collection of prose and poetry by Hungarian writers in English translation about the Revolution of 1956? By now, almost three decades after the fall of Communism, the meaning of 1956 is surely a relatively settled matter, however vigorously it may have been falsified for decades by the Kádár
From time to time Hungarians will speak with great pride of the many Hungarian scientists and artists who have won international fame. One thinks perhaps first and foremost of physicians (Ignác Semmelweis or Albert Szent-Györgyi), physicists (John von Neumann), mathematicians (Paul Erdős), and musicians (Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály). The case
Over the course of the 20th century, and in particular in the latter half, Ferenc Liszt, who during his lifetime and even decades after his death had been known primarily as an unrivaled virtuoso, began to enjoy new fame as an innovative composer. Musicians and music historians began to discover
In Defense of Tipping Physicians In recent years the practice in Hungary of routinely tipping physicians has come under much deserved criticism. The so-called “hálapénz rendszer,” or “gratitude money system” (though it is hardly sufficiently codified to merit the word “system”), originated under communism as a means of compensating for
When Herta Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2009 the Nobel Foundation praised her for her power to depict “the landscape of the dispossessed.” Considering the role the Nobel Prize plays in the formation of a canon of world literature, it is perhaps not surprising that the
In his well-known book Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Frederic Jameson refers to the post-literacy of late capitalist culture as a condition in which literature can aspire to little more than the status of pastiche. All too self-conscious of the nature of writing as a tissue of citations, of
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