Új Látóhatár, 1966 (9. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1966 / 1. szám

ÜJ LÁTÓHATÁR Literary and Political Review Editors: Gyula Borbándi, József Molnár January—February 1966 SUMMARY Tamás Huszty, a well known figure of Hungarian literary life, arrived in the West a few months ago and decided not to return to his fatherland. Aged 40, Huszty had several novels published in Hungary. He belongs to the group of writers who successfully experimented with modern methods of writing. For this reason, Communist cultural functionaries declared him existentialist and decadent and have, during the last few years, forbidden the publication of his works. The current issue of Űj Látóhatár contains an excerpt from the most recent novel of Huszty which he wrote in Hungary and which was rejected by two big publishing houses in Budapest for political reasons. An essay by László Cs. Szabó (London), deals with four poems by T. S. Eliot who died a short time ago. The essay also reveals many interest* ing details connected with the liberary activity of Eliot. „Two Nutshells", a short story by András Domahidy (Australia), takes the reader among Hungarians living abroad and analyzes their ties with the Western world. After his recent visit to the US, Gyula Schöpflin (London), relates his impressions of California. His travelogue not only describes the beauties of the landscape, but also the life, history and customs of the people of California. In the poetry section, Űj Látóhatár publishes some of the recent poems by Elemér Horváth (New York). In the column, entitled „Document", Károly Szirmai (Vrbas, Yugoslavia), recalls the periodical „Kalangya", which was the leading literary paper of the Hungarian minority in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 1930s. In the years preceding World War II, Károly Szirmai was editor of this periodical. In the „Observer" column, Imre Kovács (New York) has a comme* morative article on Ferenc Farkas who died in Hungary at the end of January of this year. For a time Ferenc Farkas was publisher of „Válasz", the periodical of the populist writers. After the war, as the leading political economist of the National Peasant Party, Farkas took an active part in political life. During the Rákosi era he withdrew from political activity. Farkas was appointed Minister of State of the revolutionary government of Imre Nagy, formed in the early days of November 1956. Győző Határ (London) reviews an interesting English book by Wayland Young, entitled „Eros Denied." Pál Albert (Paris) discusses a new novel published in Hungary, the work of a young writer, István Csurka. Finally, József Szabados (New York) comments on a book on economics by Géza Ankerl.

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