Literary Journal 2020/2. 1920/2020

The word Trianon hardly denotes merely a significant historical event, but rather a living process of a hundred years of a defining trauma, and its innumerable untold stories.

How has this line event affected and continues to affect Hungarian literature to this day? How has the literary life, institutional system, and view of literature in the motherland and the breakaway areas changed, and last but not least: how does Trianon appear in literary texts? This year’s second issue of Literary Magazine seeks to review the past hundred years in these respects.

The editors talk about the issues of regionalism and transnationalism with the literary scholar Ferenc Vincze, the literary representation of Trianon with the literary historian Júlia Vallasek, the literary historian Béla Márkus In connection with his novel, he was asked about the literary and historical processing of the peace dictatorship and the significance of personal involvement.

In addition to concise descriptions of Hungarian literature in cross-border areas, we can read analytical writings on László Németh's Trianon experience, Gyula Illyés's connection with Hungarians abroad, and the representation of peace in education and the oeuvre of four Transylvanian novelists.