Valós, virtuális-imaginárius, fiktív két 21. századi regényben
Real, Virtual-Imaginary and Fictitious in Two Novels from the 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: According to the philosophy of language, understanding and interpretation are bound to language, historicity and reason. How do such terms as real, imaginary and fi ctitious defined by Wolfgang Iser, or the components of the syntagm magic realism booming from the seventies and the concept of natural sciences, the virtual, becoming part of daily life due to the development of the computer technology, relate to each other? I have tried to provide an answer to these questions in connection with two contemporary novels, Zsolt Láng’s Bestiarium Transylvaniae. Th e Animals of Fire and Water (2003) and Ádám Bodor’s The Birds of Verhovina (2011). In both novels we have to do with an apparently real image of the contemporary Eastern European society, but the postmodern poetics and the postcolonial discourse activate such poetic and rhetorical elements that turn the imaginary reality into a fictitious, virtual one.

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