Hungarian Studies in London
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 [...]
A small exhibition will accompany the roundtable discussion, ‘Hungary’s ‘West’?: Literature and Culture at the Centenary of Nyugat‘, and will be on display on Thursday 11 December until 5 pm, on the second floor of the SSEES library, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW.
Inspired by the SSEES Library’s rich Nyugat collection, the exhibition presents a [...]
We are delighted to announce the roundtable discussion, ‘Hungary’s ‘West’?: Literature and Culture at the Centenary of Nyugat‘, to be held on Thursday 11 December, 3.00-6.00 pm, in the Old Refectory, Wilkins Building, University College London.
On the occasion of the centenary of the literary periodical Nyugat (’West’, 1908-41), scholars, translators and journalists will discuss Hungarian [...]
On Friday 13 June we began discussing problems encountered translating Hungarian literary criticism. The immediate problem we run into is that, as a rule, translation requires reading and understanding. Establishment literary criticism (Spenót, Szerb, etc.) is particularly difficult to translate, but not for lexical or syntactic reasons.
Such criticism ‘presses buttons’ in the original, classifies into [...]
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 [...]