Új Látóhatár, 1965 (8. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1965 / 1. szám

Ú]LÁTÓHATÁR Literary and Political Review Editors; Gyula Borbándi, József Molnár January—February 1965 In his extensive essay, entitled „Three Painters", László Cs. Szabó, the eminent writer and essayist living in London, appraises the art of Carpaccio, Goya and Delacroix. Miksa Fenyő (New York) continues his autobiography. In the second instalment he describes his place of birth, the village of Mély» kút. In memory of the death of T. S. Eliot we publish excerpts from „Ash Wednesday" translated by Győző Határ (London) The writer Dezső Szabó died 20 years ago, on 13 January 1945. On this occasion Gyula Gombos (New York) recalls the last days of Dezső Szabó. The story forms part of a book by Gombos which is in preparation. Új Látóhatár publishes the new lyrical works of István Készéi (Paris) as well as a cantata by György Vitéz (Montreal), entitled „Death of the Poet", and one poem by Tamás Tűz. We also publish one poem each by three American poets, i. e. Louis Simpson, James Wright and Karl Shapiro, in translation of György Gömöri (Cambridge, Mass.). In the „Observer" column an article, „Paris Vintage", by Áron Kibédi Varga (Amsterdam), reviews the 1964 harvest of French literature. In his farewell from Churchill, Imre Kovács (New York) recalls the policy and role of the British Premier during World War II. Alajos Kannás (Upland, Calif.) reviews a new Hungarian opera, „Blood Wedding" which was first performed in Budapest at the end of last year. The opera is based on a drama by Garcia Lorca which was set to music by a young and gifted Hungarian composer, Sándor Szokolay. László Márton (Paris) reviews the king dramas of Gyula Háy, short stories by István Csurka and a study by László Halász on the nature of art. These books were published in Budapest. Tibor Hanák (Vienna) and Mátyás Sárközi (Munich) also discuss books published in Budapest. The former deals with a summary on Marxist—Leninist aesthetics, the latter with the poems of a young poet, Ferenc Baranyi. Finally, Gyula Borbándi appraises a book by Peter Gosztony which was recently published in Mu» nich in German. It deals with an important phase of World War II, with the battle for Budapest fought in winter 1944=45.

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