Kabdebó Lóránt - egy Költő Agya

Kabdebó Lóránt offers a comparative reading of Szabó Lőrinc, the leading figure of the second wave of Hungarian lyrical modernism, and of his oeuvre. This anthology-style volume is published by Előretolt Helyőrség Íróakadémia and comes in a hardback binding with a protective jacket. It measures 140 x 205 mm and weighs 300 g.

The author places Szabó Lőrinc in dialogue with the great figures of world modernism, from T. S. Eliot and Cavafy to William Butler Yeats. He also compares him with József Attila, showing where the two poets share a similar experience of the world and where their ways of articulating it diverge sharply.

The analysis reads Szabó Lőrinc's poems together with his journalism and literary essays. Through this approach, the book examines the questions of literary theory, the theory of science and philosophy that occupied the poetry of the first half of the twentieth century, including the relationships between power, life, fate and technology.