Látóhatár, 1957 (8. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1957-01-01 / 1-2. szám
LATOHATAR VOL. VIII. No. 1-2. Editor-in-Chief: Imre Vámos January—April, 1957 SUMMARY The present double issue of our periodical includes the illustrated prison diary of our friend and writer colleague, Paul Ignotus, who suffered six and a half years' imprisonment during the Rákosi era. Paul Ignotus had' been a member of the Presidency of the Hungarian Writers’ Association in Budapest. Due to the consequences of the revolution, he escaped abroad. He was elected President of the Hungarian Writers’ Association Abroad. The present double issue is consecrated mainly to the analysis of the Hungarian revolution and to the death of Oszkár Jászi, the great Hungarian thinker and statesman. László Cs. Szabó, our best-known essayist and critic, gives a detailed picture of the young revolutionary writer generation. Györgv Pálóczi-Horváth, writer, secretary of the Hungarian Writers’ Association Abroad, reports on the interrogation methods applied by the ÁVÖ, on grounds of personal experience, under the title. „Answer and Admission". The well-documented article by József Molnár, the well-known political writer, drawing a balance of an improductive and dreamy era of Hunaarian emigration, is of particular interest. Miksa Fenyő, the „great old man" of Hungarian literary life, vents his views on timely political questions under the title, „After the Revolution". Gyula Borbándi, studies the question as to whether or not Socialism has a future in Hungary and the prerequisites of building up a true Socialist society. The poems published in this issue have — with the exception of Györgyi Bán. our old-time colleague — all been written by freedom fighter poets. These poets are Antal Bartucz, László Z. Tóth, Imre Máté, György Gömöri and György Faludy. Béla Horváth, well-known poet, has written a short story entitled „The Story of Turin". (According to information received from recently escaped Hungarian writers, Mr. Horváth’s poetry is clandestinely read in Hungarian prisons). In „The Storv of Turin", the author is attempting to give a new directive to Hungarian realistic description. Dr. Oszkár Jászi, — scholar and statesman, outstandinu figure of Central-European liberal democracy, Emeritus Professor of Political Sciences at Oberlin College, spiritual leader of our periodical — died at Oberlin on February 13, 1957, at the age of 82. Our editorial, entitled „Teacher of a new Generation", commemorates the significance of Professor Jászi. An old-time friend and admirer reports on Professor Jészi’s lest davs. We also bring the Hungarian translation of the funeral address, held at Oberlin by Professor István Borsody. In his lifetime, Professor Jászi had arranged for our periodical to publish his mémoires. Our current issue publishes the part in which Oszkár Jászi speaks of his years at the university. Due to its tragic timeliness, our review brings the speech held by Lajos Kossuth at St. Louis in 1852, on March 15, Hungary’s national holiday. Balázs Hallgató reviews and analyses the special edition of ..Les Temps Modernes", concerned with Hungary. László Cs. Szabó introduces an interesting phase of literary history. Gábor Bikich, outstanding young poet and linguist, publishes some data on linguistic history.