Hungarian Studies in London
This SocialEast symposium considers the involvement of art during the Cold War with espionage, both on the level of international exchange and in specific national contexts. It deals with attempts within the Eastern Bloc to monitor artists through surveillance and networks of informers, the role of art espionage as an instrument of Sovietisation, and the methods used to control the [...]
Rochester University’s online magazine of literature in translation, Three Percent, is awarding a prize for the Best Translated Book of 2008. Of the 25 works on the longlist, which includes novels by Marcel Proust, José Saramago, Halldór Laxness, Stefan Zweig and Roberto Bolaño, three are translations from Hungarian, by: Ferenc Karinthy (1921-92), Metropole, translated by George [...]
On 11 December 2008, the Friday Circle convened a roundtable discussion and exhibition celebrating the centenary of literary journal Nyugat (West, 1908-41). Anniversary events in Hungary included a year-long exhibition at the Petőfi Literary Museum, numerous talks, lectures and public events, a Nyugat 100 bus that toured the country for six months with a mobile [...]
On 27 November, Eszter Tarsoly and BA finalist Victoria Ford gave a joint presentation on grammatical possession. Hungarian has no genitive and instead uses ‘head marking,’ where the possessed thing (e.g. János háza) is marked, rather than the possessor (John’s house).
Eszter and Victoria presented was a comparative analysis of possessive constructions in English and Hungarian, with reference [...]