A repülés igézete. A társas élet hevülete és az irodalom színrevitele: Sarkadi Imre sorstragédiája
The Spell of Flight: The Fervour of Social Life and the Staging of Literature: the Tragedy of Imre Sarkadi's Fate

Summary/Abstract: Being a well-known and respected writer of his time, the circumstances of Imre Sarkadi’s tragic death have seriously altered the reception of his literary oeuvre. Although literary theory usually does not consider the author to be essential to the reception of his work, the early tragic death of a writer or poet (especially if it is a suicide) not only puts the author in the centre, but also re-tunes the oeuvre itself. Using Jeffrey C. Alexander’s theory of social performance and Erving Goffman’s frame analysis, this paper will show, in the context of Sarkadi, how the oeuvre becomes a document of the tragic death. Furthermore, the paper explores how Sarkadi’s literary work is absorbed by his tragic death turned into a social performance.

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