Il movimento attivista di Lajos Kassák

In this paper I will provide a brief overview of the early activities of the important Hungarian avant-garde artist, poet, editor and influential promoter of avant-garde literary trends, Lajos Kassák. Particular attention is paid to the publication of his first magazine A Tett (The Action, 1915-1916), around which a small group of young artists and poets were gathered. After 17 issues the magazine was prohibited because of its antimilitarism and internationalism, but Kassák restarted it under the name of MA (TODAY), published in Budapest between 1916 and 1919 and in Vienna between 1920 and 1925. In the Appendix I also provide the Italian translation of some selected fragments and poems.