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Erzsébet Dani

Although the eighty-year-old writer defines the genre of his work as an essay, it is a work that pushes genre boundaries genre, as it is at once an autobiography, oral history in written form, political history, a family novel, and an entertaining read, rich in humorous stories. Ludányi, a documentarist, names specific dates, people and events, thus adding color to the American and Hungarian events of the second half of the twentieth century through his lived historical experiences. His memoir is substantial, rich in personal and historical data, and provides interested readers with a valuable documentary source.

Edit Zsadányi

Among the various analyses that examine Imre Kertész’s Fateless, little attention has been paid to the relationship between body and narrative. Using Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject, I focus on excerpts in the novel in which power breaches the boundaries of the protagonist’s body, Gyuri Köves, as he endures detainment in various concentration camps. In this paper I argue that it is the dehumanized and abjectified body that rebels against totalitarianism by refusing to accept a deceptive survival scenario. When the perspective of death has been accepted, the concept of the abject paradoxically reveals that is the identity’s inherent motherly aspect that is able to provide a human perspective to an abjectified person. After comparing excerpts in Fateless and One Woman in the War by Alaine Polcz, another narrative in which violence breaks the boundaries of the body, I will reach the conclusion that the body itself forms the final frontier of dictatorship. Once totalitarian dictatorship penetrates the body, it loses its influence over the victim as death offers a more humane, more bearable life.

Anna Borgos

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Gregor Babelotzky

This article deals with Arthur Schnitzler’s early sketch Er wartet auf den vazierenden Gott (1886) (He is Waiting for the Unemployed God), which reveals Schnitzler’s poetological reflections on his own writing. Not unlike a «vazierender Gott», he too had to wait for moments of inspiration, even in later years. This attitude helps to explain Schnitzler’s doubts about his own capability to finalise his literary sketches and his uncertainty about his status as a «real» author. The «vazierende Gott» thus becomes an important metaphor for any discussion of the problems of Schnitzler’s literary production.

Pál Hegyi

Szőcs, Géza. 2017. Liberty, Rats and Sandpaper [Szabadság, spiclik, dörzspapír]. Trans. Paul Sohar. Island Heights, NJ: Iniquity Press. 112 pp.; Böszörményi, Zoltán. 2018. The Conscience of Trees [A fák lelkiismerete]. Trans. Paul Sohar. Princeton, NJ: Ragged Sky Press. 127 pp.

Anna Szalai

Mandler, David. 2014. Kelet és nyugat mezsgyéjén – Vámbéry Ármin és a Brit Birodalom ('On the Border between East and West – Arminius Vámbéry and the British Empire'). Budapest: Múlt és Jövő Kiadó. 223 pp. Reviewed by Anna Szalai, Independent Scholar, Israel

Ian Verstegen

The following article proposes a new interpretation of Hans Sedlmayr’s politics, which thereby achieves a more successful understanding of his work. Seeking to reconcile pro­gressive and totalitarian elements of Sedlmayr’s thought, his stance is characterized as «Na­tional Bolshevist». Consistent with this view, there are two phases detected in Sedlmayr’s outlook, an early cosmopolitan phase and a later more symptomological cultural criticism. Seeking to nuance the complexity of politics in the 1930s, in the end it is nevertheless argued that it is impossible to link tightly Sedlmayr’s historical pronouncements with his politics.

Eva Hoffmann

This article argues for a new understanding of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Reitergeschichte from 1899 through integrating the story’s animals as the perceiving pre-consciousness into its narrative voice. Through Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s pre-reflective apparatus of percep­tion that intimately links animals and humans through their shared «past that has never been present», this article offers a phenomenological reading of animality in the narrative. Within the context of Jacques Derrida’s The Animal That Therefore I Am, this article examines the attribution of logos beyond the traditional human-animal dichotomy.

László Munteán

Molnár, Virág. 2013. Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe. London and New York: Routledge. 209 pp. illus. Reviewed by László Munteán, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér

Hargitai, Peter. 2013. Who Let the Bats Out? Twisted Tales from Transylvania. Bloomington: iUniverse. 170 pp., illus. Dianne Marlene Hargitai. Reviewed by Mártha Pereszlényi-Pintér, John Carroll University

Susan Glanz

Glant, Tibor. 2013. Amerika, a csodák és csalódások földje. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok képe a hosszú XIX. század magyar utazási irodalmában (America, the Land of Wonders and Disappointments - the Picture of the United States of America in the Hungarian Travel Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century). Debrecen: University of Debrecen Press. 259 pp.  Reviewed by Susan Glanz, St. John's University

Teri Szűcs

Reviewed by Teri Szűcs

Ilana Rosen

This essay focuses on the post-Holocaust, Israeli life of five female narrators of Hungarian origin as expressed in their inclusive life histories. A close reading of the later period in the life histories of the five women exposes how they experienced and view their post-Holocaust life as Holocaust survivors and new immigrants in a newly founded State. The women's narratives of finding housing, work, and starting new families show that despite practical hardship they look back on it all with humor, acceptance, and optimism. The women's narratives about the recurrence of Holocaust-related bad memories, nightmares, fears, and worries illustrate that the past is always present and shakes the stability of their post-Holocaust, seemingly rehabilitated lives. This instability or proneness to belated agony is even stronger for two women, who embark on journeys to their past Hungarian hometowns (accompanied by their husbands, likewise of Hungarian origin). The hometown visit narratives are compelling, bothering, and carry a nightmarish quality. Seen against the background of the five women's former Hungarian lives and identity, the narratives of emigration, remembering, and re-visiting clarify that all these experiences are shadowed by the women's Holocaust experiences. Yet, while their later lives offer them some consolation, the memory of the Nazi camps as that of the Hungarian scenes/sites of deportation to Auschwitz, are forever painful and poignant.

Györgyi Horváth

Reviewed by Györgyi Horváth

Fausto Cercignani

Studia austriaca - The essays in Vol 17 (2009)

Fausto Cercignani

Studia austriaca – Ilse Aichinger (1996). The Entire Volume

Fausto Cercignani

Studia austriaca V (1997) - The Entire Volume

Fausto Cercignani

Studia austriaca I (1992) - The Entire Volume

Peter Sherwood

Peter Sherwood taught at the University of London for 35 years before being appointed the first László Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. His main research interests are in linguistics but he has also published widely in the field of Hungarian culture, including translations from the Hungarian: most recently, essays by Béla Hamvas (Trees, 2006), a novel by Miklós Vámos (The Book of Fathers, 2006, 2009), and a short story by Dezső Kosztolányi (http://asymptotejournal.com, 2011).

Judith Kesserű Némethy

The outbreak of the Hungarian revolution in 1956 brought forth solidarity movements fromHungarian émigrés all over the world. In Argentina, the response was overwhelming. Hungarianémigré organizations formed a "Comité de Ayuda pro Hungría Libre" (Aid Committee for a FreeHungary), coordinating the strategies and actions aimed at providing moral and material supportfor the revolution. Supplementing and aiding these actions were those of the Argentinegovernment and population at large. The government named a special commission for refugees;and there was a tremendous outpour of sympathy and material support for Hungarians amongArgentines, with major press coverage for months to come. Of special importance is the literaryand press output following the revolution. These actions provoked fear and rejection from theEmbassy of the People's Republic of Hungary, and it accused the Argentine government of openlysiding with the émigrés. Upon the Hungarian Foreign Ministry's instructions, the Embassystrongly intensified the espionage on the émigré institutions and its prominent members for years.Relations between émigré organizations and the Hungarian Government remained nonexistent orstrained until the lifting of the Iron Curtain in 1990.