Sartre a béketáborbanAz egzisztencialista irodalom recepciója Magyarországon az 1950-es években

Zoltán Papp

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XX. , Issue 2, 2025, page 25-44. , ISSN 1336-7307 DOI: 10.17846/PA.2025.20.2.25-44

Abstract:

The Hungarian communists had already taken a critical position against existentialist philosophy before 1949. This (rather militant) critical attitude prevailed between 1949 and 1952 in the national public sphere. However, Jean-Paul Sartre’s participation in the Congress of the Peoples for Peace in 1952 brought an unexpected turn of events. The significance of the event is illustrated by the fact that, while Alexander Fadeyev had sharply attacked him in 1948, four years later, he was able to speak at an event organised by the Soviet Union. In this paper, I examine the reception of the event, and its impact on the reception of existentialism in Hungary.

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