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I. TANULMÁNYOK A TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNYOK KÖRÉBÖL - Dr. Vadon Lehel: Upton Sinclair-bibliográfia Magyarországon 1900—1981

An annotated checklist of Upton Sinclair in Hungary 1900—1981 An indication of the popularity of Upton Sinclair in Hungary is the relative wealth of critical writing concerning the man, his works and political views. Although Upton Sinclair has suffered the excessive attention of dogmatists of several hues, it is nevertheless undeniable that serious and scholarly literary critics have positively assessed Sinclair from the appearance of The Jungle (1907) to the present day as a major progressive, socialist writer and an idefatigable fighter for social justice. At the same time they are well aware of his faults as a political thinker and his shortcomings as an artist. It is now close on seventy-five years since Upton Sinclair first became known to the Hungarian reader and a translation of one or other of his works, a literary study, article, essay or review on the subject of Sinclair has appeared in practically each of the intervening years in this country. Although his popularity with the mass of Hungarian readers has never wavered, there have been periods when he was the object of particular interest. Upton Sinclair's popularity is Hungary was always at its zenith during years which saw an intensification of social, political and economic conflicts (during the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, the economic crisis of 1928—29 and the Second World War). Comparatively little interest was shown in Sinclair's work during those periods when progressive social forces fell victim to reaction or when socialism deviated from the path of legality [the years of the „white terror" after defeating the Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919—1922), the German occupation (1944—1945) and the years of the Cold War period in Hungary (1949—1956)]. The interest in Sinclair reached its peak in Hungary at the turn of the thirties (1928—33). In Hungary Upton Sinclair appeared in an enormous range of popular and scholarly periodicals and newspapers, had many book publishers and became the most widely translated American authors of all times. Between 1906 and 1980, 30 books by Sinclair were translated into Hungarian and published in 71 editions. It is difficult to think of any foreign author whose work, political activity, pronouncements and attitudes were the subject of more detailed, comprehensive and continuous interest on the part of Hungarian criticts than Upton Sinclair. 98 studies or essays, 85 book reviews and 44 shorter reports on the literary works, event and personality of the writer appeared in the Hungarian periodical press down to the present day. Articles, studies and reviews are presented under the names of the authors arranged in alphabetical order, following this anonymous writings are registered in the alphabetical order of the Hungarian titles. .331