Debates around the Hungarian Workshop

Szilvia Sz. Molnár

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: IX. Issue 2, 2014, p. 19 – 38. oldal, ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2014.9.2.19-38

In the early eighties the young avant-garde generation close to the Hungarian Workshop created its own forums in Hungary and organized its own trends. This generation played an active part in the crisis of this literary turning point that started in the middle of the seventies and resulted in new genre hybrids by the nineties. The local avant-garde didn’t need the publishing and intellectual support of Hungarian Workshop anymore. In my study I explore the debates between the Hungarian Workshop and the critics – that took place in the eighties in literary publications – about visual poetry, avant-garde and the Western Hungarian literature.

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