Balázs Eszter: Art in action. Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from A Tett to Dokumentum, 1915-1927 - The avant-garde and its journals 3. (Budapest, 2017)

Merse Pál Szeredi: Kassákism - MA in Vienna (1920-1925)

him consisting of young Hungarian writers living in Vienna who were attracted to MA not for its political mission, but its avant-garde art platform. The young artists, who were at least a decade younger than Kassák, were less dependent on him, and hardly felt exploited in Vienna: most of them had not arrived in the Austrian capital as persecutees or political émigrés, and did not have the direct experience of revolutions that Kassák’s earlier colleagues did. It was at this time that the MA circle expanded to include political emigrants Tibor Déry, Pál Szegi, and Gyula Illyés, who all sent translations from Paris; József Nádass and Aladár Tamás who arrived from Budapest; Ágoston Erg, Teréz Bergmann and Sándor Vajda, young students from Sighetu Marmaţiei (Transylvania) at the University of Vienna; as well as the Austrian Hans Suschny, who was courting Jolán Simon's eldest daughter. It was through this new group that Kassák

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