The NYUGAT is considered to be the most important, influential and exceptional
literary, cultural, arts periodical and social review in the history of Hungary. It's
name means WEST, as in Occidental Europe, i.e. Vienna, Paris, London, etc.,
and was founded in 1908 by three Avant-Garde, agnostic, Hungarian-Jewish
intellectual writers: Hugo Ignotus (Veigelsburg), Miksa (Eng.: 'Max') Fenyo (orig.
Fleischman) and Erno (Eng.: 'Ernie') Osvat.
The NYUGAT not only introduced Hungarians (in Hungarian) to the works and
ideas of such greats as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Thomas Mann,
Casanova, etc., but it gave a voice to daring Hungarian poets and writers, such
as Endre Ady, Miklos Radnoti and Zsigmond Moricz, who spoke out in
opposition to the status-quo, the social and political injustices that plagued
Hungary.
For 34 years, until World War Two forced it out of existence, it influenced the
minds of Budapest's and Hungary's educated middle and upper class men and
women and had a major impact on the mind-set and thoughts of all of Hungary's
Nobel Prize winners, especially Janos Neumann and Imre Kertesz, to name just
two.
This January, 2008, is the 100th Anniversary of its birth. Join the celebration!
Endre Ady
Max Fenyo
Erno Osvat
Hugo Ignotus
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The NYUGAT (pronounced 'niyu-gut') periodical (‘nyugat’ means ‘west’ in Hungarian)
was a preeminent turn-of-the-20th-Century literary and social review whose impact on
Hungarian literature, culture, politics and science has been, and still is, of the highest
order. Furthermore, it is recognized in many prominent reference sources and studies
on Hungarian literature and political history, by top academic researchers and
scholars, as the most significant Hungarian periodical of its times. The NYUGAT
published prose, poetry, social commentary, biographical and philosophical works.
Most of the best of Hungary's 20th Century writers were involved with the NYUGAT or
were influenced by the study of the NYUGAT periodical in the Hungarian Public State
Highschool Curriculae. To an educated Hungarian the NYUGAT has the same aura
and mystique as The New Yorker to a New Yorker American, and is of similar
relevance. Your knowledge about this historic Hungarian periodical will impress any
educated Hungarian you may happen to be acquainted with.
