Ocean at the Window
Hungarian Prose and Poetry Since 1945
Albert Tezla(Editor)
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 30. April 1981
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-8166-6943-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ocean at the Window was first published in 1981.Hungary, after World War II, was a country torn apart by political conflict. Hungarians struggled to survive a long alliance with Germany, Soviet occupation, assumption of power by the Communist part, and the bloody revolution of 1956. The years since that uprising have witnessed the consolidation of a single-party socialist state producing a profound effect not only on the economic and social life of the nation but also on the cultural policies that govern the arts.This volume collects the work of Hungarian authors who, in spite of the turmoil and uncertainty of those years, have developed a rich and varied imaginative literature. Albert Tezla has chosen to concentrate on ten major writers who established their reputations during the first two decades after the war and have been influential in current literary developments. They are: Sandor Csoori, Ferenc Juhasz, Laszlo Nagy, Agnes Nemes Nagy, Janos Pilinszky, Istvan Csurka, Ivan Mandy, Miklos Meszoely, Istvan OErkeny, and Ferenc Santa. In addition, he presents a sampling of the work of 14 writers first published after 1965. The collection includes both poetry and prose along with critical essays and author interviews; nearly all the selections are complete pieces.The editor provides a substantial introduction to the major literary developments in postwar Hungary within the context of the changing political climate, and a biographical-critical essay for each writer. The volume also includes a short guide to Hungarian pronunciation and a comprehensive bibliography of twentieth-century Hungarian literature in translation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-6943-1 (9780816669431)
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Albert Tezla was a professor of English at the University of Minnesota and is the author of several bibliographies of Hungarian and central European literature.