Review article

https://doi.org/10.32728/studpol/2020.09.01.02

Vito Paoletić orcid.org/0000-0002-6253-1566 ; Scuola Media Superiore Italiana Dante Alighieri Pola

Abstract

This paper aims at presenting the relationship between literature,
above all poetry, and the working class as its motif in interwar Hungary.
Geopolitical changes and economic instability shaped the Twenties and
Thirties in Hungary, which took the population to the borderline of an
existential crisis: back in those years, the working class, and not only this
class, was confronted with oppression and poverty on a daily basis. This
article looks at how the state of paralisis of working class people was felt
and turned into poetry by three important and divergent poets of that
period: the impressionist Juhász, the existentialist József and the avantgardiste
Kassák.

Keywords

poetry; working class; interwar Hungary; József; Kassák

Hrčak ID:

246704

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/246704

Publication date:

24.11.2020.

Article data in other languages: italian

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