Egy Ember Elete: II.

by Lajos Kassák

Egy Ember II. (Hungarian Edition) by Lajos Kassak. 1957 hardcover published by Magveto Konyvkiado. Text in Hungarian.

676 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1957

About the author

Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde and occasional translator, was the father of many modernisms.
He was also the first genuine working-class writer in Hungarian literature.

Kassák is considered to be the main father figure of Hungarian Avant-garde, and one of the first poet/writer/artist we had an authentic working class background. His views on historical avant-garde movements influenced the regions perception and artistic production, especially because the journals he edited and published, the Ma / Today and the Tett / The Deed. He was heavily influenced by the international constructivist movement and issued several manifesto: Képarchitektúra / Image Architecture (1922), Vissza a kaptafához / Back to the Basics (1923), A konstruktivizmusról / On Constructivism (1922). Nowadays, since he is very hard to associate with a single style or movement, most art historians refer his work to be an "activist", a special label issued to mirror the socially engaged style of his artistic production.