Sokféle macska él
“You've read of several kinds of Cat”

Summary/Abstract: The article is following and parodying the tradition of the academic prose at the same time. Based on some of the most well-known Hungarian writers (e. g. István Örkény, György Spiró, Péter Hajnóczy, György Konrád, László Krasznahorkai, Péter Esterházy, Krisztina Tóth) the author intends to demonstrate that the topos of the cat changed in 20th century Hungarian literature in two ways. First , as a symbol it has become able to carry the connotations of a being deprived of freedom from the second half of the last century until nowadays. Second, the cat’s representation and the master narratives’ crises in the literary texts have been linked: the inscrutability, most typical characteristic of the cat has been combined with the adequate way of reading in the aforementioned literary texts.

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