Палимпсестно стварање простора и поетика заокрета: однос имагинације и имагологије у поезији Јаноша Тереија
Palimpsest Spatial Construction and the Poetics of the Turn: The Interrelationship of Imagination and Imagology in János Térey’s Poems

Summary/Abstract: In the poetry of János Térey (1970–2019), a prominent Hungarian writer, references to various foreign cities play a crucial role. Spatial allusion is already concretized in the titles of his books The True Warsaw and Dresden in February, and one of the protagonists in the verse novel Paulus travels to Dresden as well as to Kaliningrad. Another story line of the book centers around Marshal Paulus, who led the German offensive deep into the Soviet Union to occupy Stalingrad in World War II. However, besides the motivic coherence of Térey’s oeuvre, poetic changes can also be perceived. The palimpsest-like spatial construction that projected foreign and Hungarian places onto one another has gradually lost its dominance in favor of depicting the otherness of the “Other.” Although – almost paradoxically – this shift resulted in the increasing presence of national stereotypes, it happened in a particular poetic and modal frame that strove to open fixed conceptual boundaries and rigid clichés.

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