Esterházy Péter Monarchiája és Közép-Európája
Péter Esterházy's Monarchy and Middle-Europe

Summary/Abstract: An analysis of the notion of the Monarchy and that of Middle-Erope in two novels of Péter Esterházy (Down on the Danube; Hrabal's Book). These notions appear always as a complex of the realities, of the lliterary tradition and of the theoretical reflexions upon the former two – thus counteracting Magris-like mostalgic reconstructions. While Márai uses the notion of the Monarchy as the tipic of the decay of the West, for Esterházy this notion is a topic of the missing mediation between East and West. „To be a Middle-European means first of all that one does not understand himself” – as Esterházy himself puts it.

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