IDENTITÁS ÉS NÉVHASZNÁLAT BODOR ÁDÁM REGÉNYEIBEN
IDENTITY AND NAME IN ÁDÁM BODOR'S NOVELS

Author(s): Éva Bányai
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Ádám Bodor; The Sinistra Region; The Archbishop's Visit; geographical space; border identity;
Summary/Abstract: The diverse names of the heroes of Ádám Bodor's prose and its place-names make possible many interpretation strategies. In this paper, I tried to sketch out the relationship between the names of the persons involved in the novels and their identities. In the novels entitled The Sinistra Region and The Archbishop's Visit, the Hungarian, Romanian, Ukranian, German, Armenian, Turkish, Jewish, Polish names make possible a regional interpretation of Bodor's prose work. It comes to light that not only the persons have a relative identity, but the geographical space too, that is why I considered it useful to determine it as a border identity. The Bodor-prose is characterized by an endemic narrative, the scenes in the novels function as narrative tropics, which give a map of them, having an independent role, the meaning of which is determined by the context.

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