László Benjámin

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Laszlo Benjamin ( Joseph City, 1915 . December 5 - Budapest , 1986 . August 18 ) Hungarian poet, editor, member of parliament.

His parents were Albert Benjamin and Julianna Rosenfeld. [1] Because of his bad financial circumstances, he had to leave his high school studies and to work in 1931 in the cultural and then political work of the Social Democratic movement. He was a young printer, ferruginous, furrier, electric welding plating as well. From 1933 to 1934 he was a member of the Demény Group. In 1935 he was in Austria as a youth worker. From 1938, his poems appeared in various magazines: Nice Word, East People, Népszava. The II. (1939-1945) he was twice taken to a soldier from where he escaped in October 1944. From 1945 to 1947 he was a rural reporter. In 1952 and 1954 he was editor-in-chief of New Sound. From 1960 onwards the Fővárosi Szabó Ervin Library, and from 1963 the Contemporaryjournalist. From 1968 he was the lecturer of the Magvető Könyvkiadó. From 1975 to 1980 he was a member of parliamentary assembly. From 1976 he was Editor-in-Chief of the New Mirror between 1980 and 1986.

From his early youth, his poetry matured in the idea of ​​the workers' movement. He joined the Social Democratic "Workers" group, the decisive personality of the anthology of Tollal and Tool (1941). After 1949 he was identified with the illusion of "socialist construction" and set his poetry to serve the daily politics ( Living Forever (1949), The Passage of Our Years (1954)). The distortion of illusions made it hard for self-examination. The number in his autobiographical poems was faded with his experiences and lessons ( Sole Life (1956)). The poems of 1956 express the belief and disappointment of a generation ( Fifth Season (1962), Detention of the Sea (1967), I wanted Fire(1978)). In some of his family poems, the wicked serenity is hiding, which also appears in his later poetry books ( Loan Loaf Returns (1959), Misi and Miska (1962), Cheerful ABC (1964)) and his literary parodies ( Little Hungarian Anthology (1966)).