József, Attila (1905–1937)

Hungarian poet. He is regarded as one of the most important modern Hungarian lyric poets. He wrote about his working-class background, as in ‘Külvárosi éj/Night in the Slums’ 1932, and combined the political ideas of Karl Marx and the psychoanalytic ideas of Sigmund Freud. József committed suicide in 1937.

József's Selected Poems and Texts appeared in 1973.