Maneuvering continues over plans to rebury controversial author in Romania

From igaz magyar:”

Igazi Magyar says:
June 25, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Here is some background on Nyrio from Hungarian Spectrum. There are many many great Hungarian writers, but I don’t think Nyiro is one of them. I hope Fidesz supporters realize that they are hurting the country by idolizing members of the Szalasi government:

“What is the real point of contention when it comes to Nyirő? It is his politics. After the Second Vienna Award (1941) József Nyirő became a member of the Hungarian parliament and on the side he was the editor of a right-wing weekly called Magyar Erő (Hungarian Might). In 1944 he worked for another right-wing publication called Magyar Ünnep (Hungarian Holiday). What really marred his reputation was that after the Szálasi take-over he remained a member of parliament and became one of those who followed Szálasi in his flight to the west. His critics call him a fascist while his apologists try to minimize his political involvement. But even his admirers had to notice that Nyirő’s ideas showed a close relationship to the Nazis’ racism. His critics talk about his confusion between love and hatred, between Christianity and paganism. They claim that he is even more confused and harder to follow than Dezső Szabó who naturally had a great influence on him. But there was one difference between the two: Szabó fiercely opposed both German Nazism and its Hungarian variety, Szálasi’s Arrow Cross movement.

“Not so Nyirő who even in exile kept in close contact with those members of Szálasi’s inner circle who were not sent back to Hungary by the Allies. He was close friends with Albert Wass as well as “the court poet” of Szálasi, Géza Alföldi. He was also a good friend of Lajos Marschalkó, who was condemned to death in absentia in Hungary. Marschalkó was the leading light of those on the extreme right who supported the ideas of Ferenc Szálasi. He was a fierce anti-Semite whose most famous (or infamous) book is Világhódítók: Az igazi háborús bűnösök (World conquerors: The real war criminals). It must have sold well. I have the third edition of it. Marschalkó received the József Nyirő Prize in 1954, a year after the death of Nyirő. Birds of a feather. It is hard to imagine that Nyirő was not an avowed Hungarian Nazi.”

Actually the style of Nyírő nothing but appalling to the reader today, particularly to the younger ones. While I can understand that he was popular in a given time, it still doesn’t mean quality as we all know.
To me even in my youth was already too much, his overly embellished adjectives clearly gave the effect of the cake with too much cream and icing – you loose the taste of the substance, and – as in my case – your appetite to the whole stuff too.
And it all happened over forty years ago, so it had nothing to do with the events of today.

What I wanted to say, in my opinion there is at least a dozen better writers from that era who don’t even get mentioned today, let alone getting into diplomatic clashes over. My conclusion is, that either Mr.Kövér and the other like minded sorry souls has no idea of literary values, or they just try to camouflage a Nazi’s reburial to something else.

Once again, this is a very bad idea indeed, far from worth the consequences.