Category: Trianon

4 June 1920 is not a date which rings the bells of memory for most people in Europe or elsewhere; it should. For the treaty signed on that day in the Grand Trianon palace between Hungary and the Allied and Associated Powers had considerable historic significance and practical consequences which

„A nation’s life lies in its language.” The truth of this maxim was obvious to the prominent figures of the Hungarian Reform Era, particularly Ferenc Kazinczy and István Széchenyi, who did not content themselves with recognising and uttering it but manifested it in their deeds. As a result, Hungarians did

A NATION DISMEMBERED Selected Poetry from the Antology edited by Csilla Bertha and Gyula Kodolányi1 Part III SÁNDOR KÁNYÁDI BEHIND GOD’S BACK Isten háta mögött empty mangers empty stallschristmas here no longer callsno use waiting forthe wisemen at the door the creator’s got a lot to docan’t see to all