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On Hungarian Political Poetry (an essay)
Publié le 2 févr. 2023
Mis à jour le 2 févr. 2023
Culture
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Culture
Publié le 2 févr. 2023
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On Hungarian Political Poetry (an essay)
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ON HUNGARIAN POLITICAL POETRY
Poets from my parents' generation, such as György Petri, Lajos Parti Nagy, István Eörsi, Zsuzsa Rakovszky, Szilárd Borbély or Béla Markó, and those of the intervening generation, like János Térey, Krisztián Peer, Virág Erdős and István Kemény have always written and still do write significant political poems. But before 1989, in the Hungarian state-socialist era, poets needed to use doublespeak if they wanted to criticize the political system, that is, they had to hide their political message in between the lines of their poems, or risk their poetry being banned. If that happened, they would only be able to bring it out illegally, in samizdat publications, which carried a risk of legal reprisals and even incarceration. But, as time passed, such political
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