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The Flavours of Emigration

Summary/Abstract: Emigration is the theme of the volume of contemporary Hungarian dramaturgy issued by Selinunte publishing house from Budapest in 2018. In Péter Kárpáti’s Ultonia we can follow a shipheaded to America at the beginning of the 20th century. Péter Kárpáti’s other text in the volume, The Moscow-Beijing Trans-Symphony deals in more abstract terms with the subject of a big journey, during which we slowly slip from reality into a world of dreams. In György Dragomán’s Nihil and Galoshes, a family of intellectuals would like to leave the Romania of the 1980s, but the system that they want to escape would not let them go. In the case of Diggerdriver, on the other hand, sacrifice for a new life seems to be rewarded – or at least this is what the main character of the play, a mechanic emigrated from Hungary to the UK, expresses in a monologue. The fifth play, Szabolcs Hajdu’s It’s Not The Time Of My Life focuses family problems triggered not by emigration, but by returning home.

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