Pilátus udvarában (I.) A terápiás írás mintázatai Szabó Magda regényében
In the Court of Pilate (I). Patterns of Therapeutical Writing in Magda Szabó’s Novel

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to read a novel and a hypothetical biographical narrative (re)constructed from fragments of literary and non-literary sources in parallel, in order to make the psychological background of the novel Pilátus by Magda Szabó perceptible in the light of often contradictory data collected through historical-philological methods. The attempt is, like all interpretations, at least as much a construction as a reconstruction. In the work, therefore, the textual traces of the biographical narrative do not appear as constitutive elements of the meaning. The notion of “trauma literature” is also avoided in a totalizing sense. Instead, a comparative analysis is carried out on the personal narratives and novels of Magda Szabó. In this risky approach, following Felman and Laub’s suggestion, the author attempts to combine the methodologies of “contextualizing the text” and “reading the context as text,” and then focuses on ethical questions, on the dynamics of thematic repetitions, and identifies patterns of individual trauma.

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