Odtajnianie kanonu literatury węgierskiej
Unveiling the Canon of Hungarian Literature

Rev.: Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiert, Od idylli do ironii. Literatura węgierska wobec Zagłady w latach 1944–1948. Poznań 2020

Summary/Abstract: The review highlights the pioneering character of Kinga Piotrowiak-Junkiert’s study “Od idylli do ironii. Literatura węgierska wobec Zagłady w latach 1944–1948” („From Idyll to Irony. Hungarian Literature on the Holocaust between 1944–1948”, 2020), which can be regarded as the most crucial recently published book on Hungarian literature on the war and the Holocaust. Such assessment results from the fact that the author not only managed to collect the texts which to this day have not been subject of scrutiny, but also made an attempt to rudimentarily reconstruct the reception of selected works. Piotrowiak-Junkiert recreated the awareness of those writers about the Holocaust who later either collaborated with the communist regime or were banned from printing. Regardless of that, each of them formed their own language to narrate about the borderline experiences.

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