2016-07-26

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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