Illés, Béla
Illés, Béla (1895–1974),Hungarian writer, who, after participating in World War I, became a pacifist and joined the Communist Party in Hungary. After the failure of the soviet republic in Hungary in 1920, he emigrated to Vienna and later settled in the Soviet Union, where he became a leading member of the International Organization of Revolutionary Writers. Many of his novels and stories were published in German for the German‐speaking ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, and in 1925 his collection Rote Märchen (Red Fairy Tales) appeared in Leipzig. Illés made use of traditional oral tales and fables and expressionist techniques to draw parallels with political conditions in Europe. His major purpose was to illustrate in symbolic form the lessons that the oppressed classes had to learn if they were to triumph in the class struggle.
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