Lajos Kassák

Lajos Kassák was born in Érsekújvár in 1887, the son of a pharmacy assistant and a laundress. He left secondary school to become an apprentice locksmith, then a metalworker in the factories of Budapest, where he organised strikes. In 1909 he made his way to Paris on foot, without money. Founder of the avant-garde journals A Tett and then Ma, he went into exile in Vienna after the fall of the Republic of Councils. He tells his life in Egy ember élete, received the Kossuth Prize in 1965 and died in Budapest in 1967.

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• PoetryÉposz Wagner maszkjábanLajos Kassák · 1915not translated into EnglishLiterature