An East-Central European Success Story. György Dragomán’s The White King
An East-Central European Success Story. György Dragomán’s The White King

Summary/Abstract: One of the narratives determined by “the common East-European misery”'is György Dragomán’s novel entitled A fehér király [The White King], published in 2005. The stream of events—told by a child narrator and defined also by the alterity/alineage-image—reflects not only the general tendencies of communism-stories, but also their overall effects. Dragomán follows the relativizing prose-poetic technique used by Ádám Bodor: he mixes referenceable, decodable elements in the prose-texture for a later diversion away from them. The open, loose end writing technique and the delay of identificative acts indicate Bodor’s prosepoetical procedures. Even the speakers’ language is questionable for us (as well as the speakers’ language in the Bodor-prose): the multiethnic location implies a mixture of language. The name database familiar from the Bodor-prose also has a space-building function: the names outline the space, which, in its turn, delimits the events.

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