About Attila József
Attila József was one of the most famous Hungarian poets of the 20th century. Generally not recognized during his lifetime, József was hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great "proletarian poet" and he has become the best known of the modern Hungarian poets internationally. It was Attila József who first formulated the ars poetica of transrealism in his 1937 poem Welcome to Thomas Mann. József published his first volume of poetry A szépség koldusa (Beauty's beggar) in 1922; at the time of publishing, he was seventeen and still in school. When Attila was three years old, he was sent to live with foster parents after his father abandoned the family and his mother became ill.
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