Író, novellában
Author, in short story

Iván Mándy 100

Summary/Abstract: Is Mándy nowadays read? To what extent did he move away from the genre of the short story? Has he emerged from his craftsman position? On the author’s hundredth birthday several questions arise in connection with his text corpus that is approached by researchers on scientific discussions and in subsequent studies. This paper focuses on Iván Mándy’s relation to the short story, respectively on the manner of speech and specific terminology, the help of which he touched upon the genre questions in his literature texts. The novel discourse, the problem of disruption of the traditional short story and its scale likewise become expressed in his radio plays. The radio play entitled Író, kabátban (Author in coat) for example spotlights the lonely author struggling on the roadway, who gathers together from the dust the found sheets of paper dispersed for his short story, though unable to put them together, all his efforts come to nothing. The study emphasizes the subsequent viewpoints in connection with the Mándy texts, and some aspects of the English translation as well.

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