Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review), Vol. X. Nos. 7–8., August 2001, Budapest.
Editor-in-Chief: GYULA KODOLÁNYI. Published by Magyar Szemle Foundation. Chairman: GYÖRGY GRANASZTÓI.
Competition, Monopolies, Alternatives. Editor’s Note by Gáspár Gróh.
GÉZA Herczegh, Judge of the International Court of Justice, The Hague. János Kádár and His Age, Part I. When some new books on János Kádár still harp on the old Communist themes of the good modest king and the achievements of goulash-communism, Herczegh argues that Kádár, in his unassuming way, strove to power treacherously from the first, and used it ruthlessly and deviously once at the top. For Hungary, his rule brought stagnation and decay.
Tamás Isépy, M. P., Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Lawmaking in the Transition. One of the outstanding legal experts in Hungarian Parliament, Isépy gives an outline of the incredible legal creativity of the three parliamentary periods of the new Hungarian democracy.
Károly András, journalist, former News Director Radio Free Europe, Munich. The Beginnings of Radio Free Europe, Part I. The impending Cold War created the political climate for the establishment of RFE. Politicians and intellectuals in exile, with American technology and management, began a unique experiment in the history of broadcasting.
Antal Czettler, Brugg, Switzerland. Teleki and the Sub-Carpathian Region, Part I. As Foreign Minister, Count Pál Teleki’s initiatives in 1938 and 1939 aimed at the creation, with Poland and Yugoslavia, a Central European alliance independent of Germany and the Soviet Union.
The Privatization of the Energy Sector. Márton Járosi, Director of Hungarian Electricity Works in the early Nineties, talks to Pál Molnár about the errors and mistakes committed in the course of the privatization of the Hungarian energy sector, commending EU directives and French energy policy especially as alternative solutions.
Zsolt Mórocz, critic, Kőszeg. Ottlik and Ottlik. A critical essay on the major 20th century novelist Géza Ottlik, his views of being, existence and writing.
Spectrum: Two Conversations. The edited text of two conversations from the weekly arts and culture magazine of Magyar Szemle on TV2, Színkép (Spectrum). József Vekerdi, the outstanding Sanskrit scholar and translator talks about his career to Tamás Ocsenás, and József Tornai, poet and essayist talks about his new autobiographical book to Miklós Hornyik.
360 Degrees is a Mystical Thing. Sculptors István Bencsik and György Jovánovics, Professors at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts, gave a performance of parallel talks at the Ernst Museum in Budapest on March 28. The subject was sculpture and the human body, and the making of sculptures from casts in ancient Egypt and in their own work. An edited version of the talks is published by Magyar Szemle.
György Szabados, composer and pianist, Member of the Board of Magyar Szemle Foundation. On philosopher and essayist Béla Hamvas (1898–1967), on the watershed between an outworn modernity and a new age.
1% Metaphysics, selected by György Szabados. A passage from Jakob Boehme.
Books and Events
Gyula Borbándi: Hungary’s Three Decisive Years. An essay on the chances and decisions of Hungarian foreign policy in 1941–44. (Antall Czettler. A mi kis élethalál kérdéseink. Magvető, Budapest, 2000.)
Bálint Török. An Attempt and a Failure? A review of Mária Palasik’s book of political history, A jogállamiság megteremtésének kísérlete és kudarca Magyarországon, 1944–49. Napvilág, Budapest, 2000.
László Sturm. Passionate Indifference. On Béla Fehér’s novel Filkó. (Maecenas, Budapest, 2000).
Gáspár Gróh. The Time of Timelessness. Attila Szepesi’s book of short essays was published for the recent Book Week. (A béka kertje, Magvető, Budapest, 2001).
Mihály Kubinszky. Once There Was a Southern Railway. Our architecture columnist revives the history of the Déli Vasút of the nineteenth century, its technology and structures.
Katalin Metz. In the Mesh of Demonic Passions. On a production of O’Neill’s American Electra at the Budapest Chamber Theatre.
Klára Tóth. Belated Chronicle. Our cinema columnist saw the recent Hungarian film on the Holocaust of the Gipsies in World War II, Porrajmos – Cigány holokauszt by Ágota Varga.
János G. Gáspár. Comrades, Companions in Wealth. A review of current domestic affairs.
László J. Kiss. Austrian Foreign Policy and the EU Enlargement: An Active Policy of Neighbourhood or a Central European Community of Interests on the Way Toward Integration. A column on international affairs.
This issue of Magyar Szemle is illustrated by the sculptures of István Bencsik and György Jovánovics. On the front cover: A torso by István Bencsik.
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