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| Uj Idők | |
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| Title | Uj Idők |
| Country | Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |
Uj Idők
Uj Idők was a Hungarian periodical associated with fin-de-siècle and interwar cultural life in Budapest, notable for its contributions to literature, criticism, and public debate. It appeared alongside contemporaries in the Austro-Hungarian and successor Hungarian states, engaging with figures and institutions across Central Europe. The journal intersected with movements and personalities that included literary, political, and intellectual currents from Vienna to Paris and beyond.
Founded in the late 19th century during the Austro-Hungarian Compromise era, the periodical emerged amid debates that involved the Hungarian Parliament, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and cultural centers such as Budapest, Vienna, and Prague. In its early years it interacted with salons and editorial networks connected to personalities like Endre Ady, József Kiss (poet), Gyula Krúdy, and institutions including the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National Theatre (Budapest). During World War I the journal faced wartime censorship and cultural mobilization linked to the Triple Alliance and later the collapse of the Habsburg realms; editors navigated the postwar treaties such as the Treaty of Trianon. In the interwar period the periodical's trajectory paralleled shifts involving the Regency (Hungary), debates around the Hungarian Soviet Republic, and alignments influenced by networks tied to Paris and Berlin. Under authoritarian and revisionist political currents it adjusted editorial policy while maintaining ties to intellectuals who had also been involved with forums like the Budapesti Hirlap and Nyugat. The later decades saw archival dispersal during World War II and the Soviet occupation, with surviving runs preserved in libraries and collections in institutions like the National Széchényi Library and foreign repositories such as the British Library and the Library of Congress.
The journal published poetry, prose, criticism, and feuilletons, placing itself in conversation with periodicals such as Nyugat, Tiszatáj, and Modern magyar irodalom. It ran reviews of theater productions at venues like the National Theatre (Budapest) and the Vígszínház, and engaged with composers and performances linked to Franz Liszt, Béla Bartók, and Zoltán Kodály. Essays addressed debates involving contemporaries such as Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ferenc Molnár, and commentators who also wrote for Pesti Hírlap and Budapesti Napló. The periodical featured art criticism connected to exhibitions at the Műcsarnok and dialogues about painters like József Rippl-Rónai, Károly Ferenczy, and Béla Czóbel. Serialized fiction intersected with narratives by authors affiliated with Vajda Júlia, Sándor Bródy, and the broader Hungarian modernist cohort. Debates on legal and institutional reform referenced actors such as the Minister of Religion and Education (Hungary) and juridical figures associated with the Austro-Hungarian legal system.
Contributors included poets, novelists, critics, and public intellectuals active in Central Europe: names linked to Endre Ady, Mihály Babits, Dezső Kosztolányi, Gyula Krúdy, Sándor Bródy, Ferenc Molnár, Zsigmond Móricz, József Kiss (poet), and János Arany’s reception. Critics who contributed overlapped with staffs of Nyugat and Pesti Hírlap, including essayists conversant with Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust literatures. The publication ran notable essays and serialized works that engaged with themes prevalent in European letters, drawing attention from figures associated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Budapest, and cultural institutions like the Erkel Theatre. It also carried translations and reviews of foreign works tied to Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Oscar Wilde, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss.
Circulation metrics placed the periodical among influential Budapest titles of its era alongside Nyugat, Pesti Hírlap, and Az Est. Readership included literati connected to salons frequented by patrons of the National Theatre (Budapest), subscribers among professionals tied to the Austro-Hungarian civil service, and émigré communities in Vienna and Berlin. Reviews in contemporaneous press such as Budapesti Hirlap and references in correspondences with figures like György Lukács and Béla Balázs reflect its reception. Critics compared its profile with European journals circulating in Paris and London, and academic historians later examined its role in cultural politics during periods influenced by the Treaty of Trianon and the rise of authoritarian administrations in Central Europe.
The periodical participated in debates over national identity, language policy, and cultural renewal, intersecting with movements and personalities including Endre Ady, Mihály Károlyi, Miklós Horthy, and intellectual circles linked to Antal Szerb and György Lukács. Its pages reflected tensions between conservative and modernist camps, engaging with editors and writers active in forums such as Nyugat and institutions like the University of Szeged and Eötvös Loránd University. At moments the journal influenced public discourse on issues that echoed through diplomatic and political episodes like discussions surrounding the Treaty of Trianon and cultural policies that resonated with cultural debates in Vienna and Prague.
Surviving runs are held in national and international repositories including the National Széchényi Library, the Országos Széchényi Könyvtár collections, the British Library, and the Library of Congress. Scholars of Central European literature and history cite its pages in studies alongside those of Nyugat, Tiszatáj, and archival materials linked to figures such as Endre Ady, Mihály Babits, and Dezső Kosztolányi. The periodical's legacy continues in catalogues and academic projects at institutions like the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Debrecen, and the Institute of Literary Studies (Hungary), which preserve correspondence, manuscripts, and critical apparatus for researchers.
Category:Hungarian magazines