A HISTORY OF HUNGARIAN LITERATURE From the Earliest Times to the mid-1970's LÓRÁNT CZIGÁNY | Magyar irodalomtörténet

A HISTORY OF HUNGARIAN LITERATURE
From the Earliest Times to the mid-1970's
LÓRÁNT CZIGÁNY

This is the first full-length history of Hungarian literature to be written in English since before the First World War. Six years in preparation, it is the work of one of the few authorities living outside Hungary. It explores the rich variety of Hungarian literature from the beginnings to the emerging authors of the 1970s, and is the first work to include material on writers who have left their country for political reasons.

The author gives a general outline of the stages of growth of Hungarian literature with brief descriptions of the major intellectual movements, a critical survey of all the major authors, and short sketches of the minor ones, together with some indication of their more significant works. He includes detailed studies of major masterpieces, and biographies whenever the life-work of a particular author warrants it. Special attention is paid to literary relations between Hungary and the United States and Britain, and the annotated bibliography includes pioneering work on criticism published in British and American periodicals on Hungarian authors over the last 150 years. There is also a glossary of Hungarian literary and geographical terms.

Literature in Hungary has for long been regarded as a vehicle for national survival and social improvement. The author believes, however, that it is not solely a record of the collective experience of a people whose chief claim is that they have preserved their national identity throughout the vicissitudes of history, but also a distinct voice in the description of the human condition in all its diversity. Accordingly, the author unravels from the national preoccupations and idiosyncracies a Hungarian literature less introspective, less exclusively concerned with national issues, than previously assumed.

The present edition is based on the 2nd, revised edition of the original work (1986). No emendments have been made, except internal crossreferences have been removed, as being unnecessary in a CD-ROM edition, and the date of death of those authors who died since the latest printed edition up to 2002 have been included.

Lóránt Czigány was born in 1935 and educated at the Universities of Szeged, Oxford, and London. He was Lecturer in Hungarian Literature at the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1973. He has published several books and articles in Hungarian and English, and now lives in London.

‘Oh beata Ungheria se non si lascia
Piú malmenare!’

Dante: Paradiso XIX: 142-3

Introduction CHAPTER I The Origins of Hungarian Literature CHAPTER II The Renaissance in Hungary CHAPTER III The Reformation: the Triumph of the Vernacular CHAPTER IV Counter-Reformation and Baroque CHAPTER V Living in a ‘Fool’s Paradise’ CHAPTER VI The Birth of Modern Literature CHAPTER VII The Reform of the Language and irodalmi tudat CHAPTER VIII The Hungarian Romantics: the Aurora Circle CHAPTER IX The Development of the Drama CHAPTER X Social Criticism and the Novel in the Age of Reform CHAPTER XI Comet of the Revolution: Petőfi CHAPTER XII Post-Revolutionary Disillusionment CHAPTER XIII National Escapism: Jókai CHAPTER XIV The Decline of the Gentry and the Novel CHAPTER XV A Pseudo-Victorian Era CHAPTER XVI The Metropolitan Experience: the Cult of Illusion CHAPTER XVII Revolt Turned into Style CHAPTER XVIII The Writers of the Nyugat (I) CHAPTER XIX The Writers of the Nyugat (II) CHAPTER XX The Avant-Garde, Class-Consciousness, and Alienation CHAPTER XXI Traditions, Traumas, and Quacks CHAPTER XXII The Populist Writers CHAPTER XXIII Transylvanian Heritage CHAPTER XXIV Survival of the Nyugat Traditions CHAPTER XXV The Post-War Era GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Glossary

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