Sandor Csoori is a Hungarian poet who was considered a moderate in the ongoing debate between his country's populists and urbanites but who also became a controversial figure because of his alleged anti-Semitism amidst his pronoucements against human rights violations. In post-Communist Hungary, Csoori's situation represents the ambivalent state of literature which, because of turbulent transitional politics, is dangerously close to stagnation.
After the success of the protest movement in ...