Új Látóhatár, 1961 (4. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1961 / 1. szám

ÛJ LÁTÓHATÁR Literary and Political Review Edited by: Gábor Bikidi, Gyula Borbándi, József Molnár January-February 1961 In the current issue of our periodical the leader deals with the recent vi­sits of a few Hungarian writers to London and Paris. The editors of ÜJ LÁTÓHATÁR are of the opinion that this is a significant event and for Hungarian literature it might mean the overture to the development of Western contacts and might influence advantageously the writers' know­ledge about the West thus widening their perspectives. We hope that such a development would contribute to a further improvement of the Hunga­rian writers' position. In connection with this visits the editors of ÜJ LÁTÓHATÁR state with regret that in spite of last years's amnesty gran­ted to writers and some other favorable measures István Bibó and several outstanding members of the progressive Hungarian intelligentsia are still in prison. We publish the first part of the travelogue by IMRE KOVÁCS who took part last summer in the International PEN Congress in Rio de Janeiro and successively toured South America. In an extensive essay LÁSZLÓ CS. SZABÓ recalls the history of origin of „The Memory of Széchenyi", a famous poem by János Arany. SÁNDOR BAUMGARTEN relates Count Sándor Teleki's life in Paris one of the émigrés of the 1848 Hungarian War of Independence. LÓRÁNT CZIGÁNY writes about Sir John Bowring, the English writer and translator of the last century, who rendered great services to the cause of familiarizing Hungarian literature in Great Britain. In the belletristic column we publish „Lobsters", a short story by ZOLTÁN SZTÁRAY as well as recent poems by PÁL ANNA, JÁNOS CSOKITS, DARIUS CZUDAR and ÁRON KIBÉDI VARGA. Our „Document" contains a so far unknown work by DEZSŐ SZABÓ, an outstanding figure of modern Hungarian literature, entlitled „My Romanticism". Dezső Szabó intended this literary creed as a preface to his novel „Why?" ÁRON KIBÉDI VARGA reports on the best and most popular works of French literature in 1960. TAMÁS BOGYAY reviews „History of Hungary", a book by Denis Sinor, bublished recently in London. LÁSZLÓ CS. SZABO recalls the memory of a forgotten writer, Ferenc Békássy. JÓZSEF MOLNÁR reviews the new novel of Péter Veres. JÓZSEF KRU­­ZSELY appraises a book written by Gyula Gombos on the crisis of Hun­garian protestantism which was published both in Hungarian and English. LÓRÁNT CZIGÁNY comments on a new Hungarian periodical published in English, the „New Hungarian Quarterly", which appeared recently in Budapest.

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