Adaptation Strategies in József Pacskovszky’s The Wonderful Journey of Kornél Esti
Adaptation Strategies in József Pacskovszky’s The Wonderful Journey of Kornél Esti

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at a parallel analysis of the narrative specificities of Dezső Kosztolányi’s Kornél Esti and its film adaptation directed by József Pacskovszky, The Wonderful Journey of Kornél Esti [Esti Kornél csodálatos utazása, 1994]. The short story cycle Kornél Esti drifts apart from the classical narrative tradition, and through its metapoetical figures and the complexity of its genre combining narration with treatise and essay it can be related to late modern literary discourses. Its adaptation under discussion can be regarded as a representative example of (self-)reflexivity in film, which initiates a medial-intermedial dialogue both with literary and film tradition.

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