Hungarian utopias: the latest news
Yesterday I received the latest issue of the journal Utopian Studies, which is a “special issue on the commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia." And what did I find but this article?
Czigányik, Zsolt. “The Hungarian Translations of Thomas More's Utopia," Utopian Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2016, pp. 323-332.
The article mentions Madách, Jókai, Karinthy, and Szathmári. Also mentioned are Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), Bessenyei, Babits, and Déry. Does it get any better than this?Note also in the bibliography:
Hartvig, Gabriella. "Hungarian Gullivariads," in The Critical and Creative Reception of Eighteenth-Century British and Anglo-Irish Authors in Hungary (Pécs: University of Pécs, 2013), pp. 31-45.
This book is not in the collection of the Library of Congress. I have, however, consulted this article:
Hartvig, Gabriella. “The Dean in Hungary,” in The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe, edited by Hermann J. Real (London; New York: Continuum, 2005), pp. 224-237.
Karinthy and Szathmári are discussed here.I have no way of knowing whether the former article merely replicates the latter.
The following article is available online:
Czigányik, Zsolt. “From the Bright Future of the Nation to the Dark Future of Mankind: Jókai and Karinthy in Hungarian Utopian Tradition,” Hungarian Cultural Studies, vol. 8, 2015, pp. 12-23.
Discusses György Bessenyei, Karinthy, and briefly, Szathmári. The bulk of the essay is devoted to Jókai’s A jövõ század regénye (The Novel of the Century to Come).I am encouraged now to pursue my objective on writing an article on Karinthy for Utopian Studies.
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