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SHIFTS IN STYLE AND PERSPECTIVE IN ZSIGMOND KEMÉNY’S THE FANATICS
SHIFTS IN STYLE AND PERSPECTIVE IN ZSIGMOND KEMÉNY’S THE FANATICS

Author(s): Thomas Cooper
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Bakhtin; Kemény; narrative;

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author discusses how changes in style in Zsigmond Kemény’s novel The Fanatics can be construed as shifts in perspective from that of the narrator to that of a character in the novel. By suggesting a distance between the narrator and the narration, these shifts in style render it impossible to consolidate the text as the work of a single agency with an identifiable perspective. The narrating presence, itself a blend of formulas taken from other narratives, evanesces behind the conventions that comprise the text. Rather than offer itself as an account of events told from a particular perspective, the text emerges as a constant wavering between different modes of literary production.

  • Issue Year: 16/2002
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 277-284
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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