A történetmondás funkciói a 20. században
The Function of Narratives in the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The author has been researching biographies for decades. Careers and biographies of noblemen, ministers, folk artists, teachers and “intruder” writers (self-taught people) have been investigated within the Hungarian Department of Ethnography and Anthropology in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The author has analyzed and presented various biographical and autobiographical strategies on numerous occasions and analyzed the relationship between cultural memory and writing, the contexts and strategies of autobiographical discourse, as well as the registers of biographical narrations. This work presents some of the events of the 20th century, which had a decisive effect on both individual and collective careers, and describes the strategies of the (auto)biographical discourse.

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