Gyula Illyés

People of the Puszta

Sociological study of peasant life on the Hungarian plains

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Gyula Illyés
Gyula Illyés

Hungarian author, poet, and playwright who was one of the most influential cultural figures of 20th-century Hungary. People of the Puszta is his masterpiece, a documentary-literary account of the desperate lives of Hungarian farm laborers.

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