hulit1-5, Exercise 3: Populists and urbanists

Model answer (check the history in a reliable literary history):

The argument: from the 1930s, writers called populists stressed the peasantry, rural life and native roots as the true source of Hungarian literature and the nation, while urbanists stressed the city, Western culture and modernity, and were linked to the Nyugat tradition. The two camps disagreed about what Hungarian literature should be and who spoke for the nation.

Why a simple summary is risky:
1. The labels mixed literary, social and political positions, and individual writers did not fit neatly.
2. The argument had political overtones, and in some voices it carried antisemitic undertones, since many urbanist writers were Jewish or were identified as such.
3. Writers moved between camps, and the groups changed over time, especially under the pressures of the war and the later communist period.

A careful account describes the positions, notes the overlaps and avoids treating either camp as simply right or wrong (check).