Új Látóhatár, 1962 (5. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1962 / 1. szám

ÚJ LÁTÓHATÁR Literary and Political Review Edited by: Gábor Bikich, Gyula Borbándi, József Molnár January=February 1962 The leading article of the present issue of Űj Látóhatár is by Magda Kerényi and deals with László Németh's novel ,Égető Eszter'. László Németh is one of the most outstanding Hungarian writers: novelist, play= wright and essayist. ,Égető Eszter' is one of his best novels. Magda Kerényi, who is a regular contributor to Ű; Látóhatár, lives in Ascona, Switzerland. We publish a new lyrical work by László Z. Tóth, poet of the younger generation. He lives in the Netherlands. Károly Kerényi, the famous Hungarian mythologist, examines the question, wether György Lukács was the model for Thomas Mann's novel= figure, Naphta, the Communist Jesuit in ,Zauberberg'. Professor Kerényi published a correspondence with Thomas Mann, entitled ,Romandichtung und Mythologie', in 1945. László Cs. Szabó writes, in his essay ,Proscript's Rock', about the everyday life of French and Hungarian refugees on the Channel islands Jersey and Guernsey in the fifties of the 19th century. Victor Hugo lived here in these years, as well as General Lázár Mészáros, Minister of De= fence during the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848=49, and Count Sándor Teleki, the romantic, restless Hungarian aristocrat, aide=de=camp of the Polish General Bem in the War of Independence. Sándor Teleki became a daily visitor in the house of Hugo in Marine Terrace, on the island of exiles. By then the whole Hugo family had become fervent par= tisans of Hungary and within a few years the cause of Hungary became Hugo's own. We give in this issue the second part of János ölvedi's essay ,Hun= garians in Czechoslovakia', in wich the author throws light on the position of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia since the end of the Second World War till today. The reader finds in this issue an interesting document. It is a political analysis on Hungary's post=war international and internal situation, written by Zoltán Tildy, former President of the Hungarian Republic and the Smallholders Party, later a leading figure in the 1956 Revolution, who died last year. Ferenc Gordon, former Minister of Finances of Hungary, makes some remarks on this document. In our ,Observer' column Áron Kibédi Varga gives a survey of French literature in 1961 and analyses the outstanding prose, dramatic and poetic works published last year. László Cs. Szabó reviews a collection of Gyula Illyés' new poems, which appeared recently. And finally, this issue contains a correspondence on an interesting liter= ary topic between one of our editors Gábor Bikich and Gergely Lehoczky, a regular contributor to Û; Látóhatár.

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