The Gildens considered themselves "novelists of the world of work", and were heavily influenced by essays on proletarian fiction by György Lukács.
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Balázs was a moving force in the Sonntagskreis or Sunday Circle, the intellectual discussion group which he founded in the autumn of 1915 together with Lajos Fülep, Arnold Hauser, György Lukács and Károly (Karl) Mannheim.
He was associated with some of the most important European writers and intellectuals, such as Sartre, Brecht, Barthes and Lukács.
The Sonntagskreis was founded in the autumn of 1915 by Béla Balázs, Lajos Fülep, Arnold Hauser, György Lukács, and Károly (Karl) Mannheim; in December of that year Balázs noted the success of the group in his diary.