Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review), Vol. IX., Nos. 11-12., December 2000, Budapest. Editor-in Chief: Gyula Kodolányi. Published by Magyar Szemle Foundation. Chairman: György Granasztói.
In Big Things There Is No Small Nation. In his Editorial, Foreign Minister János Martonyi recalls the Christmas of 1956.
Professor Péter Ákos Bod, Budapest University of Economics, former Chairman of the Hungarian National Bank. The New-Old Face of Globalisation, Part Two. Our country’s Place Among the Market Economies: A Humble Contractor or the Little Tiger of East Central Europe?
Why Is the Hungarian Economy Succesful? Two contributions:
András Sugár, CEO, Westel Mobile Phone Co., Budapest. Achievements and Problems of a Big Firm. The architect of one of Hungary’s star companies examines the legal, economic and managerial environment.
Ferenc Molnár, entrepreneur, Pécsely. The Story of an Enterprise. The ups and downs, the difficult domestic and international climate in which small companies struggle to find a niche.
József Szabadfalvi, Professor of Law, University of Miskolc. The Memory of Gyula Moór. The career of a prominent legal thinker and man of public affairs, cut short by Communist dictatorship after 1948.
Károly András, former News Director of RFE, Munich. Young Beneš. A thoroughly researched study of the early years, the childhood and studies, of the builder of the Czechoslovak state.
Attila Szepesi, poet and editor, Budapest. A Baroque Madonna. The essay is a poetic evocation of the glorious past and sordid present, as juxtaposed in the settings and stories of the famous gold and silver mining centre of medieval Hungary, Selmecbánya (Stiavnica, Slovakia).
Professor Mihály Kubinszky, Sopron, architecture columnist of Magyar Szemle. Looking Back on the Hungarian Architecture of the 20th Century, Part One.
Kornél Bakay, archeologist, Kőszeg. The Memorial Plaque of Gyula László. A celebration of the work of Gyula László (1910–1998), archeologist, artist, writer, a formative intellect of 20th century Hungary.
Endre Miklóssy, city planner and essayist, Budapest. Lajos Fülep, the Last Hungarian King, Part Two. The art historian and thinker Lajos Fülep was a more than life size figure of Hungarian thought, who never wrote his magnum opus yet left an idelible mark in essays and on his many disciples.
Love Is a Pillar of Existence. Editor-in-Chief Gyula Kodolányi in conversation with Jenő Balaskó, the prominent poet of the Sixties generation, on his 60th birthday. A transcript from the broadcast of Magyar Szemle’s art magazine on TV2, Színkép (Spectrum).
Gyula Kodolányi, poet, Editor-in-Chief, former Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister (1990–1994). The Crest of the Wave. On innovation and tradition in art, on the individual risks and communal gains involved in the creative process, and the need for a society to sponsor its creative spirits.
1% Metaphysics. György Szabados has selected a passage from Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson.
Survey – Books and Events
Gábor Jobbágyi. Crime, Terror, Genocide. Thoughts on reading the Hungarian edition of The Black Book of Communism, edited by Stephane Courtois (A kommunizmus fekete könyve. Nagyvilág, Budapest, 2000).
László Harsányi. Reading the Talking Book. A review of the dialogue between Asztrik Várszegi, Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, and columnist László Lengyel (Beszélgetőkönyvecske. Helikon, Budapest, 1999).
László Sturm. Ruin and Grace. A review of the remarkable new prose book by János Háy (Közötte apának és anyának, fölötte a nagy mindenségnek. Palatinus-Noran, Budapest, 2000).
Gáspár Gróh. The Novi Sad Box Seat. First edition in Hungary of an epochal book originally published in Jugoslavia, conversations with the major Hungarian writers of the Sixties and Seventies, banned by Communist censorship before 1989. (Miklós Hornyik: Beszélgetés írókkal. Ister, Budapest, 2000).
Attila Szepesi. Tamás Furkáts, or the Pest-Buda Journey of the Palots Gulliver. The fifth book of old Hungarian prose – the early 19th century picaresque novel by György Gaál – published in a series illustrated by the grotesque modern etchings of Ferenc Banga and Imre Szemethy (ELTE Historia Litteraria Alapítvány, Budapest, 1999).
Klára Tóth. Portuguese. Our film columnist saw Andor Lukáts’ feature film Portugál, now released in the major art cinemas.
Katalin Metz, our theatre columnist reviews the Budapest Thália Theatre’s performance at the Kassa (Kosice, Slovakia) Thália Theatre, a stage version of Sándor Márai’s Kassai polgárok (Burghers of Kassa).
János G. Gáspár. Stirrings Before the Storm. Our column of home politics examines the internal movements of the opposition parties, their permanent election campaign, and the scandals of public life.
Illustrations in this issue accompany Mihály Kubinszky’s survey of 20th century Hungarian architecture, Part One.
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