"THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HUNGARIAN ACTIVISTS AND TZARA; 1920-1932", IN COLLABORATION WITH GEORGES BAAL; PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON FRANCO-HUNGARIAN CULTURAL RELATIONS FROM THE 1920S TO THE PRESENT DAY ORGANIZED IN PARIS FROM FEBRUARY 2 TO 4, 1989. CAHIERS D'ÉTUDES HONGROISES, N° 2, PARIS, 1990, PP. 117-133.
Table of contents:
Béla Köpeczi: French Culture, Hungarian Culture in the 20th Century 1
János Szávai: The Time of Free Shooters (Franco-Hungarian Literary Relations between 1920 and 1940) 7
József Herman: Sándor Eckhardt Grammarian 15 Ottó Süpek: A Privileged Meeting Place: the Eötvös College 21 Claude Schkolnyk-Glangeaud: Cultural Exchanges in Hungarian Communist Sympathizer Circles in France from 1936 to 1946 27
Paul Gradvohl: 1947/1949: the "Turning Point" Experienced by Two Communist Parties 35
Jean Perrot: Antoine Meillet and the Hungarian Language 57
Piroska Sebe-Madácsy: Kosztolányi and his Controversy with Antoine Meillet 63
Xavier Richet: Hungarian Economic Thought and its Diffusion in French Universities 71
Miklós Magyar: The Absurd and the Grotesque in Samuel Beckett and István Örkény 81 Nóra Aradi: Initiatives of the School of Paris – Hungarian Interpretations 91
Mária Nyéki: Kodály and France 97 Péter Nagy: Árpád Horváth and French Theater 107 Kate Galligan-Cserépfalvi: Nagyvilág (1946-1948) 113
Georges Baal and Henri Béhar: The Correspondence between Hungarian Activists and Tzara – 1920-1932 117
Georges Kassai: Attila József and France 135 Ana Maria Covrig: The Role of the Periszkóp Journal 141
Géza Nagy: The Image of the French Revolution in Official Hungary of the Millennium 147 György Hazai: The Role of the Scientific Book in Franco-Hungarian Cultural Relations 155
Georges Diener: History of Franco-Hungarian Cultural Relations 163
Ignác Romsics: Franco-Hungarian Cultural Relations and the Hungarian Institute of Paris between the Two World Wars 179
Pál Berényi: Franco-Hungarian Cultural Relations after 1945 and the Hungarian Institute of Paris 191
Béla Köpeczi: Closing Address 199
This journal issue is digitized here: Hungarian Studies Notebooks – 2. (1990.) (oszk.hu)
Extensions:
Tristan Tzara and the Hungarians
It is clear that we did not have the necessary space to publish Tristan Tzara's responses in the totality of these epistolary exchanges. Unfortunately, Georges Baal (1938-2013) passed away before being able to complete the work to which he had devoted himself with enthusiasm.
We hope that researchers interested in this intervention and in the collaboration of these avant-gardists will take up the file and make it available to read in full. It would be particularly useful to report on the subsequent correspondence (mentioned in the present article) of Tzara with Kassak after his visit to Budapest in 1956, a few days before the Hungarian revolution.
See: Mélusine, n° XV, 1995, Cast Shadow, Surrealism in Hungary, dossier coordinated by Georges Baal and Marc Martin.
See: "The Romanian Friends of Tristan Tzara", Manuscriptum, (Bucharest), 1981, n° 2, pp. 156-166, n° 3, pp. 131-145, n° 4, pp. 168-182; 1982 n°1 pp. 160-165, n° 2 pp. 160-166.