Nyugat

Nyugat [ ɲuɡɒt ] (Hungarian "West" or " the West ") is the name of an influential magazine founded in 1908, is named after the sometimes an entire era of Hungarian literature (about 1908-1941 ). One of their most important employee was Mihály Babits.

Nyugat was originally led by Ignotus ( Hugo Veigelsberg ), Ernő Osvát and Miksa Fenyo. The founders it was especially about the contemporary literary, artistic and philosophical development (initially esp. naturalism, symbolism, impressionism ) viewing it in Western Europe and make it fruitful for Hungary. The program of the magazine included both prose and poetry. The psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi contributed over the years at seven treatises, Sigmund Freud, an autobiographical sketch in 1925 and the unsigned memoir One difficulty of psychoanalysis in 1917, in a translation by Ignotus.

In the Hungarian literature, there are three Nyugat "generations":

The first generation comprises, inter alia, Endre Ady, Árpád Tóth Mihály Babits, Dezso Kosztolányi, Gyula Juhász Gyula and Krúdy and Zsigmond Móricz.

Skip to second generation ( 20s ) Lőrinc Szabó, József Fodor, György Sárközi, Attila József Gyula Illyés Radnóti Miklós József Erdélyi, László Németh, Tibor Déry and Sándor Marai be counted.

In the third generation, the " essay ", there are writers like Antal Szerb, László Szabó, Gábor Halász Sándor Weöres, István Vas, Jenő Dsida, Zoltán Zelk, Gábor Devecseri, György Rónay and Zoltán Jékely.

With the death of the editor Mihály Babits 1941 ended the Nyugat, as the co-editor of Gyula Illyés the name for political reasons was not allowed to continue to use. By 1944, the magazine therefore appeared under the name " Magyar Csillag " ( "Hungarian star").