Language and Literature paper by MacDonald, Vashegyi Ágnes
University of British Columbia

The Legacy of Nyugat in Hungarian and World Literature Today

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My paper examines how the Nyugat review played an essential role in the development of literary and cultural modernism in early twentieth-century Hungary, with special attention paid to three of its writers – Margit Kaffka, Dezs? Kosztolányi and Antal Szerb. Their influence is part of the most important cultural legacies of modernism within and outside Hungary. By telling the story of the Nyugat writers in English I consider my study a call for reworking models of literary and cultural history and for strengthening bridges of Hungarian studies overseas.


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