Literary Journal 2020/3. Sándor Csoóri

Sándor Csoóri, poet, essayist and screenwriter, a significant figure in the regime change, would be ninety years old this year. The autumn issue of Literary Journal pays tribute to him with an overview of his versatile work.

In the creative approach of Sándor Csoóri, rural and urban do not create opposition, but synthesis. With his oeuvre, he created a world of literary and essay language equal to academic language, which is able to show the phenomena in their entirety and complexity.

The aim of the compilation is to bring the entire creative personality to the centre of attention by presenting Csoóri's activities as a poet, thinker and public figure.

The editors of Literary Journal invited literary historian Lajos Szakolczay to discuss Sándor Csoóri’s poetry and its influence while literary and cultural historian Csaba Kiss Gy. on the author's political activity and his role in regime change. Book publisher Attila Zoltán Kovács was asked about the current stages of the publication of the whole oveure and furthure plans while actor Zoltán Rátóti talked about his Csoóri night and the challenges of poem recitation.

In addition to several art analyzes, studies are published on the relationship between Gyula Illyés and Sándor Csoóri, the author's scripts and essays, sociographic work, and the musical aspects of his oeuvre. Under the title of Inspired by Csoóri, poets open up about their defining poems and their relationship with the author.

The issue is illustrated by the works of Sándor Csoóri's favorite artists, rich photographic material and the poet's poems.