Among Cultural Models. The Metaphors of Journey, Strangers and Inhabitants in Sándor Hunyady’s Oeuvre
Among Cultural Models. The Metaphors of Journey, Strangers and Inhabitants in Sándor Hunyady’s Oeuvre

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present Sándor Hunyady’s American-themed writings. He was a popular author of the periodical Nyugat, his novels and short stories are chiefly about the idea of the city and the countryside. The analysis deals with the categories of the experience of strangeness in the writer’s American short stories. In his interpretation the United States is a comprehensive cultural model, which is similar to the Central European area. On the one hand, Sándor Hunyady’s American writings draw the American town, society and culture, and, on the other hand, they present the genuine and authentic Central European atmosphere. Sándor Hunyady shows a high degree of interest in urban culture and places, so the analysis touches on the borderline situation between real and unreal, visible and invisible lines.

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