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- TheatreComoedia Balassi Menyhárt árultatásárólAnonymous · 1569not translated into EnglishA magnate who betrayed all his masters confesses to an archbishop, and turns his confession into a display of his crimes.Literature
- PoetryBalassi Bálint verseiBálint Balassi · 1590not translated into EnglishThe first Hungarian lyric collection arranged by its author: love, the war of the frontier, and prayer.Literature
- EpicThe Siege of SzigetSzigeti veszedelemMiklós Zrínyi · 1651The siege of Szigetvár in 1566, told as an epic by the great-grandson of its defender.Literature
- PoetryOn the Changes in FranceA franciaországi változásokraJános Batsányi · 1790Eight lines written in 1789, on hearing the news of the French Revolution, for subjugated peoples and for kings.Literature
- NovelFanni hagyományaiJózsef Kármán · 1794not translated into EnglishThe intimate confidences of a provincial heroine in love with a poor suitor, published anonymously in a journal in 1794.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryDorottyaMihály Csokonai Vitéz · 1804not translated into EnglishA mock-heroic poem in which the spinsters of a carnival ball, in Somogy, take up arms against men and against the carnival itself.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryHimfy szerelmeiSándor Kisfaludy · 1807not translated into EnglishA cycle of love songs published anonymously, whose stanza form still bears the name of its hero.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryTövisek és virágokFerenc Kazinczy · 1811not translated into EnglishA slim collection of epigrams against outdated literary taste, with which the dispute over the renewal of the language opens in Hungary.Literature
- PoetryBerzsenyi Dániel verseiDániel Berzsenyi · 1813not translated into EnglishHoratian odes on the decline of a nation and the retired life of a country landowner.LiteraturePublic domain
- TheatreBánk bánJózsef Katona · 1833not translated into EnglishA kingdom left to a foreign queen, nobles who conspire, and a palatine caught between his loyalty to the king and the revolt of his own people.Literature
- NovelAbafi: Son of AbaAbafiMiklós Jósika · 1836A young Transylvanian nobleman of the sixteenth century, dissolute and quarrelsome, sets out to reform himself by the sheer force of his will.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryAppealSzózatMihály Vörösmarty · 1837A speech in verse that calls on Hungarians to be faithful to their country and reminds them of what this land has cost them.Literature
- TheatreSzökött katonaEde Szigligeti · 1843not translated into EnglishA forcibly enlisted conscript deserts to find his betrothed, and his name makes a countess faint in Milan.Literature
- PoetryJohn the ValiantJános vitézSándor Petőfi · 1845A shepherd driven from his village becomes a hussar, saves a princess and remains faithful to his childhood sweetheart.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelThe Village NotaryA falu jegyzőjeJózsef Eötvös · 1845In a provincial county, an election, stolen papers and an outlaw: the justice of an old regime laid bare.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryToldiJános Arany · 1847A colossal younger brother, humiliated by his elder, leaves his village to enter the king's service.Literature
- NovelA rajongókZsigmond Kemény · 1859not translated into EnglishA law aimed at a sect becomes the instrument of a settling of scores among the powerful of Transylvania.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryThe Folk-Tales of the MagyarsVadrózsákJános Kriza · 1863Ballads, songs and tales from the Székely villages of Transylvania, printed in the local dialect and followed by a glossary.Literature
- PoetryA délibábok hőseLászló Arany · 1873not translated into EnglishA young provincial nobleman runs from illusion to illusion, amid literature, war and travel.Literature
- PoetryTwenty Years LaterHúsz év múlvaJános Vajda · 1876A man says he is cured of a twenty-year-old love, and compares himself to a summit whose ice no longer melts.LiteraturePublic domain
- Short storiesThe Good People of PalócA jó palócokKálmán Mikszáth · 1882Fifteen stories from the Palóc country, held together by villages and figures who reappear.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelEclipse of the Crescent MoonEgri csillagokGéza Gárdonyi · 19011552: Eger besieged by the Ottoman army, and two children who were once abducted and meet again there.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelThe Paul Street BoysA Pál utcai fiúkFerenc Molnár · 1907Two gangs of schoolboys fight over a vacant lot in Budapest, with flag, ranks and regulations, like a war of adults.Literature
- PoetryLevelek Iris koszorújábólMihály Babits · 1909not translated into EnglishA first collection that changes form and tone with each poem, under the emblem of the goddess of the rainbow.Literature
- NovelGold in the MudSáraranyZsigmond Móricz · 1911A gifted day labourer wants to rise above his station and wrest land from the great estates that hem in his village.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelStonecropEmberek a kövek közöttCécile Tormay · 1911In the Croatian Karst, a wild shepherdess and a railway employee from Hungary fall in love among the rocks.LiteraturePublic domain
- Short storiesSzindbád ifjúságaGyula Krúdy · 1911not translated into EnglishA man with the name of the sailor of the tales sails through his memory, towards the women he loved in his youth.Literature
- PoetryHajnali szerenádÁrpád Tóth · 1913not translated into EnglishPoems of grey dawn and melancholy, built around a serenade played in thought beneath a window.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryÉposz Wagner maszkjábanLajos Kassák · 1915not translated into EnglishFree verse from 1915 about the war, in which heroes have given way to exhausted anonymous men.Literature
- NovelAz elsodort faluDezső Szabó · 1919not translated into EnglishA Székely village before and during the Great War, where the author places in the peasants the country's only hope.LiteraturePublic domain
- CinemaMy Brother Is ComingJön az öcsémMichael Curtiz · 1919A few minutes of film made for the Hungarian Soviet power of 1919: a prisoner of war returns as a revolutionary.Cinema
- NovelAz élet kapujaFerenc Herczeg · 1920not translated into EnglishA Hungarian archbishop seeks the papacy in order to obtain, against the Turks, a help that Europe does not want to give.LiteraturePublic domain
- NovelDarker Muses: The Poet NeroNero, a véres költőDezső Kosztolányi · 1922An emperor wants to be recognised as a poet and pursues with his jealousy those who have the talent he lacks.LiteraturePublic domain
- PoetryAnna ForeverAnna örökGyula Juhász · 1926A poem in which the one who has forgotten Anna's face discovers that she remains in each of his days.LiteraturePublic domain
- CinemaHyppolit, the ButlerHyppolit, a lakájIstván Székely · 1931A wealthy haulier finds a servant from a grand household brought into his home, hired by his wife to teach him how to live.Cinema
- PoetryTe meg a világLőrinc Szabó · 1932not translated into EnglishPoems in which a man claims all of his freedom for himself alone, and looks without illusion at what this demand costs.Literature
- NovelAbel AloneÁbel a rengetegbenÁron Tamási · 1932A teenager from the Székely lands guards a mountain forest alone and holds his own, through speech, against those who come to find him there.Literature
- CinemaSpring ShowerTavaszi záporPál Fejős · 1932A village servant, seduced and pregnant, is driven out of everywhere and finds refuge where no one expected.Cinema
- NovelThe Pendragon LegendA Pendragon legendaAntal Szerb · 1934A Hungarian scholar in London is invited to search the library of a Welsh count fond of the occult, and is ordered to do nothing of the kind.LiteraturePublic domain
- TheatreÁgis tragédiájaGyörgy Bessenyei · 1936not translated into EnglishA verse tragedy about a king of Sparta whom revolt forces to cancel debts, dedicated to Maria Theresa and staged only in 1936.Literature
- PoetryNagyon fájAttila József · 1936not translated into EnglishThe last poems the poet saw in print, in which private pain and public life are spoken with the same clarity.LiteraturePublic domain
- CinemaLumpaci the VagabondLumpacivagabundusGéza von Bolváry · 1936Two deities wager with a demon that none of three honest craftsmen will go astray, even if made rich overnight.Cinema
- CinemaHortobágyGeorg Höllering · 1936On the great plain, a csikós household sees its children torn between tradition and the new world.Cinema
- NarrativeA Journey Round My SkullUtazás a koponyám körülFrigyes Karinthy · 1937A Hungarian writer starts hearing noises coming from nowhere, learns what he has in his head, and goes off to be operated on in Sweden.Literature
- CinemaDeadly SpringHalálos tavaszLászló Kalmár · 1939A young man falls in love with a woman engaged to a count, who refuses to break off the engagement, and he can no longer free himself from her.Cinema
- NovelEmbersA gyertyák csonkig égnekSándor Márai · 1942Two old men meet for dinner after more than four decades, and one expects from the other an answer he has been preparing all his life.Literature
- NovelThe Story of My WifeA feleségem történeteMilán Füst · 1942A Dutch captain tells of his marriage and his jealousy, without it ever being possible to know whether he is right to suspect.Literature
- CinemaPeople of the MountainsEmberek a havasonIstván Szőts · 1942A family of lumberjacks from the high mountains falls under the sway of a forestry company whose steward covets the wife.Cinema
- CinemaSomewhere in EuropeValahol EurópábanGéza Radványi · 1948War orphans, reduced to theft, find refuge with a musician who lives alone in an abandoned fortress.Cinema
- CinemaTreasured EarthTalpalatnyi földFrigyes Bán · 1948A poor peasant abducts the woman he loves from a forced marriage, and must buy back his freedom through labour.Cinema
- CinemaLiliomfiKároly Makk · 1955A travelling actor falls in love with a young girl whom her guardian intends for a nephew, and his comrades help him win her.Cinema
- CinemaMerry-Go-RoundKörhintaZoltán Fábri · 1956A peasant woman loves a boy from the cooperative, while her father wants to marry her to a rich farmer in order to unite their lands.Cinema
- CinemaSunday RomanceBakaruhábanImre Fehér · 1957A journalist in the uniform of a simple private courts a maidservant by passing himself off as a peasant's son, and gets caught up in the game.Cinema
- PoetryHarmadnaponJános Pilinszky · 1959not translated into EnglishPoems in which the camps and the Passion are spoken in the same words, with nothing explained.Literature
- NovelThe FawnAz őzMagda Szabó · 1959A successful actress tells in a single breath of the hatred she has borne since childhood for a woman blessed with everything she herself was denied.Literature
- Short storiesIgézőJózsef Lengyel · 1961not translated into EnglishStories of camps and internal exile, in which a stranger from elsewhere leads a Siberian village towards greater humanity.Literature
- CinemaAge of IllusionsÁlmodozások koraIstván Szabó · 1965Young engineers who wanted to change things together see their group fall apart as they enter adult life.Cinema
- CinemaMy Way HomeÍgy jöttemMiklós Jancsó · 1965A young Hungarian held prisoner by the Soviets watches over cows with a young Soviet soldier whose language he does not know.Cinema
- CinemaThe Corporal and the OthersA tizedes meg a többiekMárton Keleti · 1965A deserter corporal and a few companions wait for the end of the war in a castle, changing roles according to who arrives.Cinema
- CinemaCold DaysHideg napokAndrás Kovács · 1966Four detainees awaiting trial relive the three days of a massacre in the winter of 1942, each pleading his own cause.Cinema
- Short storiesOne Minute StoriesEgyperces novellákIstván Örkény · 1968Very short grotesque tales whose last sentence overturns everything, with a note to the reader at the head.Literature
- NovelSaulusMiklós Mészöly · 1968not translated into EnglishA persecutor of the first disciples, on his way to Damascus, feels the conviction that drove him gradually come apart.Literature
- CinemaStars of EgerEgri csillagokZoltán Várkonyi · 1968From childhood to the siege of Eger in 1552, a young Hungarian nobleman confronts the Ottomans and a janissary who pursues him.Cinema
- NovelThe Case WorkerA látogatóGyörgy Konrád · 1969A civil servant who ordinarily only records and files comes upon, in a Budapest flat, something that no regulation had foreseen.Literature
- CinemaThe Lady from ConstantinopleSziget a szárazföldönJudit Elek · 1969An old lady in Budapest tries to exchange her flat, and discovers over the course of the visits the city of her time.Cinema
- CinemaThe Upthrown StoneFeldobott kőSándor Sára · 1969A young man barred from film school becomes a surveyor in Rákosi's Hungary and gradually loses his illusions.Cinema
- NovelMetropoleEpepeFerenc Karinthy · 1970A linguist gets off a plane in a city whose language and country he cannot identify, and which no one helps him leave.Literature
- CinemaThe FalconsMagasiskolaIstván Gaál · 1970A trainee discovers on the plain a farm breeding trained birds of prey, and the strict order that reigns there.Cinema
- CinemaSzindbádZoltán Huszárik · 1971An ageing seducer relives, in no particular order, his past love affairs and the meals of former days, in the Hungary of small towns.Cinema
- PoetryPsychéSándor Weöres · 1972not translated into EnglishThe poems, letters and memories of a Hungarian poetess of Goethe's time, invented from start to finish.Literature
- CinemaThe Whistling CobblestoneA sípoló macskakőGyula Gazdag · 1972Secondary-school pupils are sent to work in the countryside, where nothing awaits them, and their supervisors prefer to hide it from them.Cinema
- NovelFatelessnessSorstalanságImre Kertész · 1975An adolescent from Budapest is deported and describes the camp as a series of reasonable stages, never expressing indignation.Literature
- CinemaAmerican TorsoAmerikai anzixGábor Bódy · 1975Three exiled Hungarian officers serve the Union side in 1865, in a film that imitates the period document.Cinema
- CinemaMattie the Goose-boyLúdas MatyiAttila Dargay · 1977A farm boy robbed of his goose and beaten by his lord vows to take revenge three times over.Cinema
- CinemaThe WitnessA tanúPéter Bacsó · 1979A dyke keeper whom the regime draws out of prison moves from one absurd post to the next, waiting for a service to be demanded of him.Cinema
- CinemaLittle ValentinoA kis ValentinoAndrás Jeles · 1979A young delivery boy keeps the money entrusted to him and spends a day spending it, without finding what he was looking for.Cinema
- CinemaA Priceless DayAjándék ez a napPéter Gothár · 1979A thirty-year-old woman, ready to do anything to have a home of her own, accepts a marriage of convenience.Cinema
- Short storiesA 6714-es személySándor Tar · 1981not translated into EnglishIn a carriage full of drunks and in their homes, commuters talk, and their mingled voices make up the book.Literature
- CinemaDaniel Takes a TrainSzerencsés DánielPál Sándor · 1983After the crushing of 1956, two young people take the train to the border, among the crowd of those leaving.Cinema
- CinemaThe Revolt of JobJób lázadásaImre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay · 1983In 1943, an old Jewish couple who have lost their children adopt a Christian orphan to pass on to him what they own.Cinema
- CinemaDiary for My ChildrenNapló gyermekeimnekMárta Mészáros · 1984An orphan returned from the Soviet Union resists the communist aunt who wants to mould her, in Rákosi's Hungary.Cinema
- CinemaStephen, the KingIstván, a királyGábor Koltay · 1984On the death of Géza, his succession pits two heirs against each other: one wants the Christian crown, the other the gods of old and the freedom of the clans.Cinema
- CinemaThe Philadelphia AttractionUramistenPéter Gárdos · 1984A young crippled acrobat wants to wrest from an old illusionist the secret of the act that had made him famous.Cinema
- NovelSatantangoSátántangóLászló Krasznahorkai · 1985In a hamlet rotting where it stands, a rumour announces the return of people believed dead, and everyone begins to wait for them.Literature
- NovelA Book of MemoriesEmlékiratok könyvePéter Nádas · 1986Three narratives intertwine between Budapest and Berlin, where one man's memory, a family's and a century's merge.Literature
- CinemaSound EroticismEgészséges erotikaPéter Tímár · 1986In a workshop where unsellable crates are nailed together, cameras are installed in the women's changing room to attract buyers.Cinema
- CinemaMy 20th CenturyAz én XX. századomIldikó Enyedi · 1989Two twin sisters separated as children cross the Europe of 1900, one as a society thief, the other as a bomb-planter, without ever recognising each other.Cinema
- CinemaMeteoAndrás Monory Mész · 1990Amid the ruins of a great city, three cronies hope to get rich betting on horse races thanks to a meteorologist's calculations.Cinema
- CinemaTwilightSzürkületGyörgy Fehér · 1991Amid the mists, a policeman refuses to believe the investigation into a little girl's murder closed and hunts the killer.Cinema
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