A menekülés mint életprogram Sándor Iván újabb műveiben
Escape as a Life Programme in the Latest Works of Iván Sándor

Summary/Abstract: The refugee crisis of recent years is a marginal topic in Hungarian literature, but Iván Sándor reflects on it in two of his latest novels (A hetedik nap [The seventh day], 2018; Amit a szél susog [What the wind whispers], 2020.). The two works are far apart in time and space, but the two narratives complement each other to paint a nuanced picture of the modes, cultural history, and role of escape in the life of an individual. The former novel creates the perilous, hopeless atmosphere of the depicted era with the constant flow of huge crowds, while the latter volume focuses on individual escape stories. Not only the motif of escape is common in these works, but they are also connected by several threads. This study examines the motif of escape and its stratification in the two novels and aims to show how escape becomes a life programme in the analysed books.

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