Új Látóhatár, 1959 (2. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1959 / 1. szám

ÜJ LÁTÓHATÁR Literary and Political Review Editor-in-Chief: Gyula Borbandi • January-February 1959 • Publisher: József Molnár The leading-article of the present issue of „Új Látóhatár" by GYULA BORBANDI draws a parallel between the ideas and fate of Oszkár Jászi and István Bibó, the two most outstanding Hungarian political thinkers ot our times. February 13 marks the second anniversary of Jászi's death in the United Slates. In the lirst days of January 1959 the news reached the West that István Bibo, a minister of the Imre Nagy government and one of the leaders of the Petőfi Party, was sentenced to life. Both Jászi and Bibó showed an enlightening example how to reason in politics rea­listically, coolly and without prejudice, how Hungarian politics can be brought up-to-date and how to serve the cause of national progress. ,,Üj Látóhatár" considers its important task to familiarize Hungarians abroad with the ideas of Jászi and Bibó. ZOLTÁN SZABÓ recalls an important event in the populist movement, the 1943 Szárszó conference. At this conference was laid down for the first time the essence of the third-road policy against which the present Communist regime is pursuing a fierce struggle. In this issue „Új Látóha­tár” is commencing its debate on the populist literature, in the course of which we publish the criticsm of PÁL IGNOTUS on the populist literature and movement. In the belletristic part the reader can find a poemcycle by JÓZSEF BAKUCZ, a young poet who escaped to the West after the revolution and is now living in New York, and several recent poems by GYÖRGYI BÁN. We also publish new poems by LÁSZLÓ BARÁSZKY-JÓB and GÉZA ÁCS. MIKLÓS DOMAHIDY, whose text of a puppet-show, published in our last issue, aroused great interest, contributes a short story: „I am a carpenter and an ass" describing the author’s experience in the prison camp. On the 25-th anniversary of the novelist Ferenc Móra, JÓZSEF SZAMOSI is attempting to designate the author's place in Hungarian literature. In his study „Religious consciousness and feeling in our times" TIBOR HANAK, the young philosophical writer, examines why religion has lost the leading role it enjoyed in earlier centuries. KÁROLY RAVASZ, for­mer diplomatic official deals with the situation of the Hungarian people's economy based on the discussion pursued in Hungary on the direction and organization of the economic policy. In our column, „Observer", GYULA MAÁR, a member of parliament of the post-war anti-Communist Independence Party, now living in the United States, examines whether or not the current UN debate on the Hungarian question serves the interest of the Hungarian people. LÁSZLÓ PAPP, one of the leaders of Hungarian students in the United States, reviews the results of public opinion research conducted among the stu­dents. In our book review LÁSZLÓ NAGY discusses the French Blue Book on the Imre Nagy process („La Vérité sur l'affaire Nagy") and ZOLTÁN NYESTE deals with Karl Jaspers' and Albert Schweitzer's new book on peace and atomic war. VIKTOR MÁRJÁS comments on the Paris première of Henri Montherlant's new play „Don Juan". GÉZA EKECS discusses the film „The Eighth Day of the Week”, based on the short story by Marek Hlasko, the young Polish writer. Finally KÁROLY BENEDEK writes about the first Spanish newspaper.

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