Путовање накрај пограничне зоне: Имре Кертес – Петер Естерхази: Један догађај
Journey to the End of the Border Zone Imre Kertész–Péter Esterházy, An Event

Summary/Abstract: From the end of the 1970s, the image of the “border” began to emerge in Kádárera literature, metaphorizing the threatening structure of political boundaries and their existential consequences. The boundary is a philosophical, psychological and at the same time а social-ideological concept that separates and exits, connects and closes, allows and forbids. In its transient nature, it also possesses the contradictory temporal dimensions of the distressed past and of the desired future. Crossing the border is thus a metaphysical liberation, enrichment of self-experiences, fulfilment of personality, and at the same time it provides an opportunity to move from the frozen Eastern European time zone into a teleological time dimension. How does the Eastern European past determine the experience of personal freedom? Can the memory of internal censors be eliminated by the dialogicity of art? Examining the texts of Imre Kertész and Péter Esterházy, the paper analyses the Eastern European heritage of the internalization of political borders.

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