Futurology, Science Fiction, Utopia, and Alienation
in the Work of Imre Madách, György Lukács, and Other Hungarian Writers:
Select Bibliography

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

Csala, Katalin. “The Puzzling Connection between H. G. Wells and Frigyes Karinthy,” in The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe, edited by Patrick Parrinder & John S. Partington (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005), pp. 195-204.

Fekete, John. “Science Fiction in Hungary,” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (48), July 1989, pp. 191-200.

Gabel, Joseph. Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism, translated by William M. Stein and James McCrate. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1991.

Gángó, Gábor. “Anti-Metaphysical Reasoning and Sociological Approach: Roads from Nationalism to Regionalism in the 19th-20th Century Hungarian Intellectual Tradition,” Studies in East European Thought, vol. 60, no. 1/2, June 2008, pp. 17-30.

Gottlieb, Erika. “The Cultural Transfer of Science Fiction and Fantasy in Hungary 1989-1995” [review], Utopian Studies, Winter 2001.

Keleman, János. “Art’s Struggle for Freedom: Lukács, the Literary Historian,” in Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics, edited by Michael J. Thompson (London: Continuun, 2011), pp. 110-127.

Kleinheincz, Csilla. “A brief introduction to Hungarian science fiction and fantasy,” The Portal, 6 December 2010.

Kleinheincz, Csilla. Hungarian Post-Communist Science Fiction, The World SF Blog, February 2009.

Lukács, György. Fejlő désének története (1911) [The history of the development of modern drama]. Budapest: Magvető, 1978.

Entwicklungsgeschichte des modernen Dramas; herausgegeben von Frank Benseler. Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1981. (Georg Lukács Werke; Bd. 15)

Die ungarische Dramenliteratur, Chapter xv, Section 1, pp. 542-544 =

On Hungarian Dramatic Literature, translated by Charles Senger

“The Sociology of Modern Drama”  [1909/1911? - excerpt from Entwicklungsgeschichte des modernen Dramas], translated by Lee Baxandall (1965), in The Theory of the Modern Stage, edited by Eric Bentley (London: Penguin Books, 1968), pp. 425-450.

Lukács, György. “Madách tragédiája” (1955) [Madach’s tragedy], with Rónai, Mihály András; Madách-Lukács Vitairat. Budapest: Glória Kiadó, 1998. Alternative citation:  G. Lukács, Magyar irodalom, magyar kultúra, 570.

MacDonald, Agnes Vashegyi. “The ‘Lukács Effect’ in Twentieth-Century Hungarian Literature and Film, Rocky Mountain Review, 63 (1): 3, 2009, pp. 26-42.

Madách, Imre. The Tragedy of Man; translated by William N. Loew, New York: Arcadia Press, 1908.

Madách, Imre. The Tragedy of Man; translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes; introduction by George F. Cushing; illustrations by Mihály Zichy. New York: Püski Publishing, 1988. Scene 13 on this site.

MetaGalaktika #11: A Thousand Years of Hungarian Science Fiction, 2009, by Mariann Benkö and Gábor Takács, translated by Csilla Kleinheincz. Alternate URL @ The Portal.

Morse, Donald E. “When the Hungarian Literary Theorist György Lukács Met American Science-Fiction Writer, Wayne Mark Chapman,” in Anatomy of Science Fiction, edited & introduced by Donald E. Morse (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2006), pp. 186-191.

Nagy, Peter. “Lukács and Hungarian Literature,” New Hungarian Quarterly, 60, 1976, pp. 72-82.

Sanders, Ivan. “Lukács and Hungarian Literature,” in Hungary and European Civilization edited by György Ránki & Attila Pók (Budapest; Akad. Kiadó; 1989), pp. 399-410.

Schäfer, Wolf. “Stranded at the Crossroads of Dehumanization: John Desmond Bernal and Max Horkheimer,” in On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives, edited by Seyla Benhabib, Wolfgang Bonß, and John McCole (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 153-183.

A short history of Hungarian science fiction from the beginning to the 1980s.

Sohar, Aniko. The Cultural Transfer of Science Fiction and Fantasy in Hungary 1989-1995. Frankfurt Am Main: Peter Lang, 1997.

Stock, Adam. Mid Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought. Doctoral thesis, Durham University, 2001. (Durham E-Theses Online)

Szegedy-Maszák, Mihály. “Romantic Drama in Hungary,” in Romantic Drama, edited by Gerald Gillespie (Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994), pp. 297-315. See also PDF file of this article.

Tökei, Ferenc. “Lukács and Hungarian Culture,” in Georg Lukács: Theory, Culture, and Politics, edited by Judith Marcus & Zoltán Tarr (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1989), pp. 153-167.

Vos, Luk de. “Get Last, Man! Some Aspects of the Last Man Topos in European Literature” in Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future, edited by Luk de Vos (Antwerp: EXA, 1985), pp. 441-464.

The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách, translated by George Szirtes
Scene 13

“La Tragedio de L’Homo kaj Imre Madách” de Kálmán Kalocsay

“Mór Jókai” de Zsuzsa Varga-Haszonits

“Mondlingvo de Mór Jókai” de Tivia

“Volapuka Lando en Siberio”
(Pri "Csalavér" de Mór Jókai)

Kontraŭrevoluciaj fortoj dum la hungara proletara diktaturo de György Lukács

Arta partikulareco kaj Esperanto de Roberto Passos Nogueira
[pri teorio de Georg Lukàcs]

The Metaphysics of Tragedy: Excerpts by Georg Lukács

Sebastiano Timpanaro on Giacomo Leopardi & Materialist Pessimism

Adorno to Bloch on the Blockage of Utopia

Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974): Bibliografio & Retgvidilo / Bibliography & Web Guide

Pessimism as Philosophy: A Jaundiced Selected Annotated Bibliography

Theodor W. Adorno & Critical Theory Study Guide

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George Szirtes Website

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