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Landscape in Prose

The Poetics of Mood in Zsigmond Justh’s Short Novel: Artist Love

Summary/Abstract: The transformation of one of the most important genres of Hungarian literature at the turn of the 20th century, the short novel deforms all the other representatives of literary prose, and creates new narrative types. All these short novels (e.g. István Toldy: Anatole, János Asbóth: Álmok álmodója [Dreamer of Dream], Gyula Reviczky: Apai örökség [Paternal Inheritance]) analyse the possibilities and the difficulties of the narrative production of the subject. A considerable way to achieve this purpose is to introduce art and artists as the main character of the short novel. In my essay I would like to interpret the complex problem of the first Hungarian artist novel. The novel titled Artist Love by Zsigmond Justh confronts us with the difficulties of the verbal representation of all those emotions and moods that affect us when we experience art.

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