%0 Journal Article
%T The Questions of Modernization in the Urban-Folk Debate in Hungarian Literature
%A Horváth, Béla
%J Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2009
%N Volume 4, Issue 1
%P 49-61

%@ 1897-3035
%D 2009
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/kwestie-modernizacji-spoleczenstwa-w-wegierskiej-dyskusji-ludowo-miejskiej
%X The opposition that unfolded in Hungarian literature between the two world wars among the representatives of liberalism and the folk-country idea, is still sensible until now. One of the major contrast was the „Jewish” issue. The historical environment, the Hungarian territory loss, unsolved social matters and especially the farm granting issue, the liberal economic policies represented by Jewish capitalists, who played signifi cant role in the boom period in the 19th century history of Hungary, are the reason behind social tensions in the eyes of the left wing and writers with folk-roots. The representatives of folk literature expected the modernization from the rise of folk classes and considered the old Hungarian literacy and the archaic folk culture as basis for the modernization. The folk-urban opposition is remarkable in current Hungarian politics and culture.