A személyiség problémája Esterházy Péter Egy nő című művében
The problem of personality in Péter Esterházy’s She Loves Me

Summary/Abstract: A Novel of Production was an important stage in the Hungarian prose turn. The Introduction to Literature and Esterházy’s later works, which could be interpreted as a further reflection on it, were rearranged in a direction in which the unresolved dilemmas already indicated came to the fore. The questions of the integrity of the personality and the relationship between personality and community came to the forefront of the horizon of the writer’s approach. The question is not unrelated to the context of spatial existence, because one of the burning issues of the post-regime change world is the question of self-interpretation of identity. Esterházy’s She Loves Me can be related to contemporary Hungarian and world literature that simultaneously posits the inability of the grand narrative and the self-identical narrative subject to function, linking this to the problem of the literary representation of gender roles. It is composed of ninety-seven short chapters, in which only the numbering shows a building character, since there is no narrative progression. The title is repeated in almost every short section, which may give the reader a sense of the hopelessness of constantly trying again. At the same time, the repetitive structure and the inherent differences and spatio-temporal shifts may lead the reader to rethink the fixed structures stuck in the tradition, which are no longer suitable for reinterpreting the integrity of identity and interactivity with the other.

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