János Herceg’s Literary Images
János Herceg’s Literary Images

Summary/Abstract: János Herceg’s essays and studies are depictions of Hungarian literature in Bácska/Yugoslavia/Vojvodina throughout several decades. An important background to his short stories, novels and notes on cultural and historical events is provided by his interacting literary images. The delineation of the Hungarian literature of Bácska sprouting under the enticement of Budapest becomes formulated in the context of cultural history in Herceg’s writings within the framework of “the Bácska character.” The Trianon turnover gave life to Kornél Szenteleky’s model of Hungarian literature in Yugoslavia. One of the contemporary presenters of the intellectual programme and local colours was János Herceg. Herceg’s literary image regarding ethnic/national character is attached to Vojvodina. János Herceg’s concepts of literary conceptions, as I can discern from his essays and studies, are graded and supple, and next to the already mentioned context of cultural history (art history, folklore, local history, etc.), they are composed in the comparative relations system of Hungarian literatures, Slavic and world literature.

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