„Misterium bólu” Dzieciństwo w prozie Gézy Csátha
“The Rite of Pain” Childhood in the Works of Géza Csáth

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyses the image of childhood in the short stories of Geza Csáth (1887–1919) in order to demonstrate how the Hungarian modernist writer critiques and subverts modern conceptualisations of child- hood as idyllic and innocent. By referencing the works of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and, most importantly, Melanie Klein, the author proves that Csáth’s short stories about childhood are strongly rooted in psychoanalytical thought, with some of them being surprisingly similar to now-canonical descriptions of psychoanalytical case studies. As it is shown, in such stories as Black Silence, Matricide or Little Emma, the modernist writer portrays his young characters as subject to the same suffering as adults, and as evil from their earliest years.

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