Új Látóhatár, 1964 (7. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1964 / 1. szám

ÚJ LÁTÓHATÁR Literary and Political Review Edited by: Gyula Borbándi, József Molnár January—February 1964 "Humanity and Reform", a study by Zoltán Szabó, deals with Hun= garian reforms introduced in the 19th century and analyzes the thoughts of József Eötvös and of his contemporaries, Hungarians traveling in the West. Another extensive essay, by Áron Kibédi Varga (Amsterdam), deals with the ideas and views of the Baroque. He illustrates these with ex= amples taken from Hungarian Baroque poetry. Lóránt Czigány discovered in the British Museum, London, a docu= ment which is important from the point of view of literary history. It is the second note of Ferenc Kölcsey, the outstanding poet and writer, in which he, as notary of County Szatmár, applies to the king for the re= lease of imprisoned law students. In the current issue Új Látóhatár prints a photostat copy of the original document, the exact text as well as the comments of Lóránt Czigány. In the belletristic part we publish a short story by Zoltán Sztáray, "The Sixth Christmas", whose hero, a political prisoner released from a Stalinist prison, finds that his wife had deserted him. The author of the short story "David and Goliath" is a young writer living in Hungary who uses the pseudonym of Bálint Simon. Our belletristic column also includes poems by György Vitéz, Lajos Nyéki and Miklós Domahidy as well as György Gömöri's translations of Polish poetry (by Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat). In the Observer column Gyula Borbándi reviews the new Hungarian Literary Encyclopaedia, whose first volume was recently published in Bu­dapest. Áron Kibédi Varga presents a young poetess, Judit Tóth (Hunga­­ry), on the occasion of the publication of a volume of her poems. László Béry discusses the first book (short stories) of Mátyás Sárközi. László Márton comments on Iván Boldizsár's (Budapest) report on his travels in France. Mátyás Sárközi remarks briefly on the recent Braque exhibition in Munich. Finally, Imre Szente describes his study tour in Finland last year. The sections dealing with the writer's visits to Väino Linna, the popular novelist, and to Sillanpää, the author and Nobel=prize winner, deserve special attention. Letters to the editors deal, among others, with the role of Cardinal Mindszenty in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, János Topa, an interesting personality of the Hungarian anti-nazi resistance and the problem of cul­tural exchange between Hungary and the West.

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