Hungarian Studies in London
Readers are invited to help edit a centenary issue of Nyugat, at the Petőfi Literary Museum’s Nyugat100 website:
A Nyugat közleményei alapján összeállítottunk egy műfajonként rendezett tartalomjegyzéket a folyóiratban megjelent művekből, melyek közül mindenki szavazhat a saját maga által legjobbnak tartott 15 versre, 3 elbeszélésre, 1 regényrészletre és 3 cikkre, hogy összeállítsa a maga ízlése szerint [...]
2008 marks the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Nyugat (West, 1908-41), Hungary’s modern literary journal par excellence. Together with the translation workshops, we will be organising a few activities to discuss Hungarian literature and culture at Nyugat’s centenary, with a focus on the constructions, collocations, and location (geopolitical or otherwise) of ‘West’.
Celebratory and [...]
János Háy’s short prose piece ‘Petőfi híd’ (Petőfi bridge) is one of seven short stories named after Budapest bridges, published together in Házasságon innen és túl (Budapest, Palatinus, 2007). Current BA student Malcolm Lesley translated ‘Petőfi híd’ as part of a finalists’ language project on translation and translation criticism. Reading the original with Malcolm’s translation, [...]
On 2 November, students and teaching staff watched Károly Makk’s 1971 film Szerelem, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, and arguably one of the greatest Central European films of all time. Two short stories by Tibor Déry (1896-1977) form the basis of Szerelem, for which Déry also wrote the [...]
On 16 March, Gwen Jones gave a talk on representations of Budapest in early twentieth-century Hungarian literature, the subject of her doctoral thesis.
The main theme running through her talk was the difficulty in finding a way in which to speak and write about Hungarian literature in English, avoiding the pitfalls of existing models. At one [...]