Borgesi mintázatok Grendel Lajos Bőröndök tartalma című elbeszélésében
Borgesian Patterns in Lajos Grendel’s Novella Bőröndök tartalma [The Contents of Suitcases]

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the content of Lajos Grendel's novella Bőröndök tartalma [The Contents of Suitcases], dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges and published in 1986. Its aim is to identify specific links between the Grendel novella and Borges' oeuvre. The study picks out Borges's short story The Book of Sand as a preface, and to prove the existing links between the two opuses, it first describes the chronological circumstances, then uses narratological and comparative methods to examine the text from the following aspects: standpoint, character traits, plot. The analysis also focuses on the differences between the two texts and on the characteristics of the infinite book, which becomes central to both ones. The paper also deals with the fantasy-based interpretation of magical realism and its manifestation in Grendel's oeuvre (essays Prikk és Pantheosz [Prikk and Pantheos]; Valóság, fantasztikum, mágia [Reality, Fantasy, Magic]).

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