The People of the Puszta, first published in 1936, grew out of the populist movement. In it, Gyula Illyés wrote about his own country in the narrow sense, the southern part of western Hungary, about his people, not far removed yet from medieval serfdom in those days. Poetry, autobiography and ethnography are wielded with political ideas into an artistic whole; the passionate, universally valid testament of man shouldering his historical destiny.
The People of the Puszta, first published in 1936, grew out of the populist movement. In it, Gyula Illyés wrote about his own country in the narrow sense, the southern part of western Hungary, about his people, not far removed yet from medieval serfdom in those days. Poetry, autobiography and ethnography are wielded with political ideas into an artistic whole; the passionate, universally valid testament of man shouldering his historical destiny.