Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review, Vol. XII., Nos. 9–10., October 2003, Budapest. Editor-in-Chief: Gyula Kodolányi. Published by Magyar Szemle Foundation. Publisher: György Granasztói.
Scarcity Hits Back. Editorial Note by Gyula Kodolányi.
Tamás Mellár, economist, Chairman, National Bureau of Statistics. In a Trap? Population and Economy. Demographic factors augur an end to political planning based on unimpeded economic growth in the European countries. Aging and a low birth rate, limited human and natural resources suggest that the entitlements of the consumer society must be re-negotiated.
Gábor Náray-Szabó, Chairman, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, and Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
The Blind Alley of Consumption. The history of the biosphere and the processes that maintain it are not compatible with a civilization based on growing consumption.
Aladár Lászlóffy, poet, Budapest and Kolozsvár (Cluj, Romania). Fifty-Six. An essay on the Hungarian Revolution of October 1956 and its presence in the national imagination.
Endre Marinovich, Former Chief of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister. Antall and Yeltsin. A factual record of the negotiations and of the relationship, based on mutual respect, of the two statesmen.
János Zlinszky, Professor of Law, Pázmány Péter University, Budapest, and Former Judge of the Constitutional Court. Ferenc Deák. The architect of the historical Compromise between Austria and Hungary in 1867 was no mere pragmatist, but a principled statesman whose work carries a contemporary message.
Gyula Borbándi, journalist, formerly with Radio Free Europe, Munich. Remembering Ferenc Nagy. An evaluation and an evocation of personal memories on the centenary of Ferenc Nagy, the first Hungarian Prime Minister (1945–47) of peasant background, and in his American exile an acknowledged representative of the oppressed democracies of East Central Europe.
Antall Czettler, historian, Brugg, Switzerland. The Allende Experiment. A rarely told story of Salvador Allende, the doctrinaire leftist Premier of Chile, who attempted to overthrow a constitutional democracy with support from Cuba and international communism.
Chantal Delsol, philosopher, Paris. The Republic – A French Question. Two chapters from a book under the same title examine French etatism and socialism as deeply ingrained parts of a national religion of the Republic.
Erzsébet Moussong-Kovács. When We Talked Hungarian in Bessarabia. Passage from a memoir on childhood after World War I, when Hugarian managers and staff of the Romanian national railways were stationed in multi-cultural Bessarabia.
Gábor Czakó, novelist and essayist, Budapest. Uncleaunt Tony. Piece from the Hungarian Horror Tales Series of short grotesque stories illustrated by Ferenc Banga, the designer of Magyar Szemle.
1% Metaphysics. György Szabados has selected a passage from Jose Ortega y Gasset on the philosophical significance of Einstein's revolution.
Books and Events
Zsolt Mórocz. To Believe in a Miracle. An exploration of the strains in István Nemeskürty's essay on 20th century Hungarian history. (Mi történt velünk? Szabad Tér, Budapest, 2002).
Gáspár Gróh. Citoyens of a Confession. Literary historian Károly Alexa's new book draws the outlines of the bourgeois-citoyen tradition in Hungarian literature. (A magyar polgár és a magyar iró. Kortárs, Budapest, 2003).
László Sturm. Flying Close to the Earth. On the journals of Gábor Oláh, the characteristic literary figure of the inter-war years in the city of Debrecen, are published for the first time. (Naplók. Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, Debrecen, 2002.)
Bálint Balla. Exile and Identity. To Be a Hungarian after 1956 in the West, and in Switzerland. A review of Tamás Kanyó's book (Emigráció és identitás – '56-os menekültek Svájcban (L'Harmattan – MTA Kisebbségkutató Intézet, Budapest, 2002).
Batthyány Circle of Art. A Dispute – On Contemporary Art in 2003. A group of leading Hungarian visual artists publish a statement on the present-day situation of the arts and the artists. The present issue of Magyar Szemle publishes a selection of their art work.
Mihály Kubinszky's regular column reviews a national exhibition of interior decorators at the Budapest Museum of Arts and Crafts.
Katalin Metz in regular column looks back once more at the 2002–2003 theatre season.
Klára Tóth. A Happy Birthday. A new Hungarian film directed by Szabolcs Fazekas is reviewed in our film column.
János G. Gáspár. On the Threshold of a Crisis? A review of Domestic Affairs.
After a Hot Summer, a Hot Autumn? Péter Ákos Bod looks at recent developments in the economy in the world and at home.
This issue of Magyar Szemle publishes art work by members of the Batthyany Circle of Art.
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