Living<i>Mitteleuropa</i>in the 1980s: a network of Hungarian and West German Intellectuals
Journal: European Review of History Revue européenne d histoire
Year: 2012

Abstract This paper investigates the parallels between intellectual biographies and the conceptual re-emergence of Central Europe in the 1980s. It contextualises the origins of a distinct vision of the region within the life experiences of non-conformist intellectuals in East and West Europe. By the 1980s, these intellectuals had developed a transnational informal network which facilitated the flow of ideas across a porous Iron Curtain. A closer look at the biographies of György Konrád and Györg