Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review), Vol. XIII., Nos. 9–10., October 2004, Budapest)
Editor-in-Chief: Gyula Kodolányi. Publisher: György Granasztói. Published by Magyar Szemle Foundation.
GYULA KODOLÁNYI. Ragweed and Death Wish. Editor's Note on hemp allergy and the Hungarian mind.
TAMÁS MELLÁR, economist, Former Chairman (1998–2003) of the Hungarian Bureau of Statistics, Budapest. Is the Boat Gone? The major macroeconomic indicators of Hungary do not show a significant change from 1990. Has the Transition aborted, due to the liberal orthodoxy of the international economic framework? Where are the paths of a new dynamic hidden?
LÁSZLÓ VERESS, Professor of Agriculture, Debrecen, and collaborators from the Batthyány Circle of Professors, Budapest. Agricultiural Policy and Regional Development. Part II. A critical comparative analysis of land ownership structure in Hungary and the EU, and proposals for changes in Hungarian agricultural policies within the European Union framework.
TAMÁS MAGYARICS, Editor-in-Chief, Külügyi Szemle (Foreign Policy Review), Budapest. A New Phase in Hungarian Foreign Policy, I. With accession to the European Union in May 2004, Hungary has found itself in a new situation, where the 1990 foreign policy priorities may remain unchanged, but the means by which policy is conducted are modified.
BÁLINT TÖRÖK. From the Height of the Gallows. On the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of György Donáth. An obscure hero of Hungarian democratic politics, Donáth was executed in 1947, on October 23rd, exactly nine years before the Revolution. His death, as chief convict of a trumped up trial of high treason, heralded the Communist drive for tyranny, the destruction of the multi-party system.
SZABOLCS SZITA, historian, Budapest. Causes and Effects. Sixty years ago, On October 14, 1944, Hungarian Nazis removed, with German military support, Admiral Horthy's last government. In the ensuing months, the majority of Hungarian Jewry, especially from the countryside, was deported to Auschwitz. The wider historical implications of that horrible period are examined here.
MÓROCZ ZSOLT, essayist and critic, Kőszeg. Beyond the Imagination, Part I. The hell of lagers and gulags is examined, the identical phenomenology of time, terror, meaning, solidarity and transcendence in the accounts of inmates.
Gergely Egedy, political scientist, Faculty of Public Administration, Corvinus University, Budapest. Religion and Culture in the Social Philosophy of T. S. Eliot, Part I. An interpretation, for the Hungarian reader, of the evolution of the dominant ideas of The Sacred Wood and Notes Toward a Definition of Culture.
GÁBOR CZAKÓ, novelist and essayist, Budapest. Standpoint. An essay on the permanence of metaphysical values.
1% METAPHYSICS. For his permanent column, György Szabados has seleted a passage on Oriental and Western philosophies of art, by Ananda Coomaraswamy.
Books and Events
LÁSZLÓ STURM. Reality Search. On a new novel, the Woman Next Door, by Transylvanian Hungarian writer Zsolt Láng (A szomszéd nő, Koinonia, Kolozsvár-Cluj, Romania, 2003).
KATALIN HORÁNYI. What Was Lost? – Meditations on a Book. American writer Eleanor Perényi's 1946 memoir about pre-War Hungary, More Was Lost, was published for the first time in Hungarian in 2003. (Több veszett el. Kortárs, Budapest, 2003).
GYULA KODOLÁNYI. The Beauty of the Visible World. Living in Visegrád in the Danube Bend, Gróh (b. 1923) captures in his water colours the breathtaking vistas and mysterious lights of the landscape, in the wake of masters like Szőnyi and Egry. The present issue of Magyar Szemle is illustrated by his work.
MIHÁLY KUBINSZKY. Exhibition in an old Hungarian Castle. Just across the border in Austria, in Városszalónak (Schlaining), our architecture columnist saw an exhibition entitled the Mysterious East.
KATALIN METZ. Loneliness, Damnation, and the Love of Freedom. Our theatre critic reviews the most notable productions of the Hungarian summer festivals – plays by Sophocles, Dostoievsky, Brecht, Milán Füst and Ferenc Juhász.
JÁNOS G. GÁSPÁR. Constructive No-Confidence and Destructive Confidence. An analysis of the complex political situation and its implications, after the expected yet sudden resignation of Péter Medgyessy as Prime Minister, and his nominated successor, the Socialist's dark horse, Ferenc Gyurcsány.
JÁNOS BRENNER. After the Festivities. Sobering out after the enlargement ceremonies and festivities, our Berlin correspondent takes a closer look at Hungary's entry into the union, and the German-Hungarian relationship.
PÉTER ÁKOS BOD. Political Epitaphs. Summing up the economic legacy of Péter Medgyessy, and the the narrow path to be walked during the twenty months before the 2006 elections.
This issue of Magyar Szemle is illustrated with water colours by János Gróh.
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