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Configurations of the Human Being in Otto Tolnai's Latest Prose

Summary/Abstract: Otto Tolnai is a Hungarian poet, writer and editor who lives in Serbia. One of his latest prose, Infaustus, has been published in a special edition of the periodical Ex Symposion, bearing the title „Minor Literature". Infaustus is a special kind of chrestomathy, which contains nine shorter texts. The texts are centred around the notion of 'collecting': collections, collecting things, writing as collection, etc. The whole chrestomathy can be considered as a collection of stories about so-called „infaustus" human beings. Infaustus is a Latin word which originally means 'unlucky', 'unfortunate', but in Tolnai's usage the term extends its semantic field and becomes a symbol of the minoritarian state of being. In the present essay, the author provides an interpretation of Tolnai's work using the Deleuzian theory. As Deleuze and Guattari write in Mille Plateaux: „... man is majoritarian par excellence, whereas becomings are minoritarian; all becoming is a becoming-minoritarian."

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