Hogyan állhat ellen az erdő? Esszé John Fowles The Tree című könyvéről
How Can a Forest Resist?

Summary/Abstract: In his essay about John Fowles’s book The Tree the author discusses the relationship between Fowles’s idea about fiction and the structure of gardens and forests. According to Fowles, the structure of prose fiction can be seen in a strong connection with the labyrinthic jungles and forests. Kovács argues that this sort of relevance should take into account the temporal primordiality of forests in connection with mankind, maintaining however the validity of Fowles’s arguments in other important contexts. The ambivalence of the relationship between trees and humans is encoded into the paradigm of modernity. To engage in a discussion with a tree, mankind should first address its own relationship to modernism and all of its implications.

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