A polgár fogalma és identitása Márai Sándor két regényében
The Connection between the Bourgeois Concept and Identity in Two of Sándor Márai's Novels

Summary/Abstract: By reconsidering the difference between ethnographical description and literature, and here the author mostly refers to Clifford Geertz and Laplantine's works, the research of some literary texts as an ethnographical description would be possible. Taking into consideration these concepts the author has studied two of Márai Sándor's novels: The Confessions of a Bourgeois (Egy polgár vallomásai) and Kassa Patrol (Kassai őrjárat). The study contains the following points of views and themes: 1. the author has examined the bourgeois concept in Márai's two novels, comparing it with the definition of a bourgeois in social science; 2. the author has observed that the identity of the narrator in both novels, his special opinion about bourgeoisie and about art is in fact the author's artistic conception, and this answers to the literary critics' question why Márai remained at the tradition of classic modernism throughout his carrier: because of his attachment to the bourgeois value; 3. and thus the author tries to prove that a literary text can be the topic of an anthropological study because of the documentary value of the bourgeois description.

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