Ocean at the window : Hungarian prose and poetry since 1945 / Albert Tezla, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tezla, Albert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungarian literature--20th century.

Hungarian literature.

Balkan literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xliii, 481 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography: p. [439]-474.

ISBN:

0-8166-5517-0

1-4356-0629-9

OCLC:

182850809