
ISBN : 9782296131347
FRANÇOIS FEJT AND HUNGARY IN THE 1930S
Ágnes Széchenyi
François Fejt was a mere 29 years of age when he left his native country in
1938. This period is marked in his bibliography of works written in Hungary by
nearly three hundred studies and book reviews. In my lecture, I present the
beginnings of François Fejt's career in the 30s, his conflicts with the ruling
(Horthy) regime and the lasting footprints he left in the culture of the Hungarian
nation, in literature and in journalism. I endeavour to represent the dynamics of
sympathies and antipathies and to provide an overview of the intellectual tendencies
characteristic of Hungary at the time.
I would begin by quoting István