Nyomozás a múlt után – megelevenedő képek, látomások
In Pursuit of the Past – Images Revived

Summary/Abstract: How to build the virtual world of a historical novel? How to create the perception of reality? What does it suggest for the contemporary readers and how do posterity readers understand the evoked past having to face three timelines (their present, the present of the writing which has become past and the past evoked in the work)? The author is searching for answers to these questions by comparing the poetics of Romanticism with that of postmodernism, starting from the first historical novel of Hungarian literature, Miklós Jósika’s Abafi (1836) and the postmodern novel Halál Budán (Death in Buda) by Gergely Péterfy published in 2008.

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