WAS ZÄHLT’S, VOR SICH HIN MURMELT?

Author(s): Anna Gács / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2004

Die Werke von Kertész, seine Texte, die mit sturer Konsequenz am Wesen des Selbstgesprächs, der monologischen Rede festhalten, sind nicht vom Aspekt der Fortsetzbarkeit zu verstehen und ihre Bedeutung ist nicht aus diesem Gesichtspunkt zu beurteilen. Es scheint wichtiger zu sein, die komplexen Fragen seiner Prosa zu beachten, die gleichzeitig die Dilemmata, Paradoxa, Wege und Aporien, die immer zum selben Problemkreis führen, interpretieren und demonstrieren. Nämlich auf Grund welcher literarisch-poetischen Strategien die geschichtlichen Erfahrungen eines Europas des 20. Jahrhunderts interpretiert und vermittelt werden können, die die Vorstellungen der kreativen Persönlichkeit sowohl auf dem Gebiet des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens als auch auf dem der literarisch-künstlerischen Gestaltung erschüttert haben.

DER AUSSENSTEHENDE UND DER BETROFFENE: DIE IRONIE DES VERSTEHENS

Author(s): Mihály Szegedy-Maszák / Language(s): German Issue: 2/2003

In die nachstehenden Abhandlung wird Imre Kertész’ Roman eines Schicksallosen analysiert. In dieser Deutung, die den narratologischen Elementen besondere Aufmerksamkeit widmet, stellt der Roman im Gegensatz zur Tradition des Bildungsromans den Prozeß dar, wie der Protagonist György Köves ein „Eingeweihter“ wird, wie er aus der Situation eines Außenstehenden in die eines Betroffenen hinübertritt. Dabei wird die verborgene Ironie der Erzählung dadurch getragen, daß der Protagonist zugleich Beobachter und Beobachteter ist.

Nézz körül! Ezt a világot Sterne teremtette. Találkozási pontok a Karnevál és a Tristram Shandy között

Author(s): Anikó Kurucz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2018

Hamvas Béla’s Carnival (Karnevál), written between 1948 and 1951, was published in 1985. This novel, called the “catalogue of fate”, “inventar of mankind” is filled with a lot of allusions and references to literary and philosophical traditions. Tristram Shandy is one of the most important texts that reverberates throughout Carnival. Both Tristram Shandy and Carnival can be considered a non-conventional novel in their usage of the technique of digressions creating metafiction and intertextuality. In the essayistic dialogues of Carnival, in curtain lectures, conversations between protagonist Mihály Bormester and the spiritual agent (the voice) permanently divert into endless interruptions and self-reflexive comments. The paper aims to examine these metanarrative strategies and investigate intertextual relationships in novels. The other purpose of the paper is to focus on the influence of Sterne’s hobby-horse (manic obsession) on Carnival’s monomania, delineating the absurdity of subjectivity

ZU PÉTER LENGYELS COBBLESTONE

Author(s): MIRKO DOMBROWSKY / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2000

Im Berlin der zwanziger Jahre war mitunter von Asphaltliteratur die Rede. Damit bezeichnete man - nicht ganz ohne Wertung - jene Texte vornehmlich aus jüdischer Tradition, die sich den Themen Großstadt und Zivilisation zuwendeten. Diese Diskurspolitik diente nicht zuletzt der Abgrenzung von „wahrer“ Dichtung oder „Weltliteratur“, wobei man in beiden Fällen gerne an Goethe dachte. Das vielleicht prominenteste Beispiel von „Zivilisationsliteratur“ aus dieser Zeit ist Alfred Döblins Roman Berlin Alexanderplatz, welcher freilich trotz der Absage Döblins an das klassisch-bürgerliche Bildungsideal selbst bald Einzug in die sogenannte Weltliteratur hielt. 1988 nun veröffentlicht der ungarische Autor Péter Lengyel den Großstadtroman Macskako, in dem wiederum der Straßenbelag eine Rolle zu spielen scheint. Der Titel der englischen Übersetzung von 1993 lautet Cobblestone.* Schauplatz der Haupthandlung ist Budapest während der ungarischen Millenniumsfeier im Jahr 1896. Da liegt es nahe, an Musils Mann ohne Eigenschaften zu erinnern, in dem die andere Metropole der habsburgerischen Doppelmonarchie keine zwanzig Jahre später ebenfalls das Epizentrum einer patriotischen Jubiläumsveranstaltung ist (welche sich hier freilich nur wortreich ankündigt). Welchen Aufschluß geben diese literarischen Assoziationen?

SHIFTS IN STYLE AND PERSPECTIVE IN ZSIGMOND KEMÉNY’S THE FANATICS

Author(s): Thomas Cooper / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2002

In this article the author discusses how changes in style in Zsigmond Kemény’s novel The Fanatics can be construed as shifts in perspective from that of the narrator to that of a character in the novel. By suggesting a distance between the narrator and the narration, these shifts in style render it impossible to consolidate the text as the work of a single agency with an identifiable perspective. The narrating presence, itself a blend of formulas taken from other narratives, evanesces behind the conventions that comprise the text. Rather than offer itself as an account of events told from a particular perspective, the text emerges as a constant wavering between different modes of literary production.

EMMA RITOÓK’S NOVEL “SPIRITUAL ADVENTURERS” [A SZELLEM KALANDORAI]

Author(s): Agata Schwartz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2002

Emma Ritoók’s novel “Spiritual Adventurers” (A szellem kalandorai, 1921) is a chronicle of fin-de-siècle intellectual history. It was inspired by the author’s participation in the “Sunday Circle” (Vasárnapi Kör) and its members and friends: Ervin Donáth’s character was most likely modelled after Ernst Bloch. Of all the ideologies represented in the novel, those associated with the women’s movement and the conflicts that the “new woman” had to face seem to be the most actual for today’s readers. Ritoók’s novel represents the “new woman” as torn between multiple and often conflicting discourses regarding female creativity and sexuality and the world around her as not ready yet for her to enter the stage. Whereas the novel ends with a destructive act, the shooting of Ervin, which can be read as a metaphor for the collapse of the old world order for which the revolution offered no real alternative, the “new woman” portrayed through Héva Bártoldy’s character becomes the carrier of a message of hope for future generations to further what the previous ones had painstakingly initiated.

Формы национальной идентичности и неоформленность инаковости

Author(s): István Vörös / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3-4/2001

At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries the small nations began to identify themselves on the grounds of their native language. The Czech, Slovak and Hungarian languages, however, were not prepared for this task. Therefore, the small nations wishing to identify themselves in this new way, tried to solve some of the problems simply by skipping them. This resulted in creation of myths, in a Romantic understanding of the notion nation. An appropriate example for this are the works of Berzsenyi (1776-1836) and Kollár (17831852). At the background of their considerable poetic oeuvre we find the same Romantic interpretation of the nation. Their exaggerations are similar even if they had their own separate way in literature. It would be interesting to know what they would have said to each other, if they had met, let’s say, in 1830 in Pest-Buda. Both of them found a classical poetic form for the expression of the new idea still in the process of formation: Berzsenyi the classical stanza structure, Kollár the sonnet. The ideas of freedom and nation can appear in a poem only in words and symbols, according to the rules of the language. Both poets wanted to awaken their nation from a „state of sleeping”. They wanted to use the words „I” and „you” interchangeably. At the end of their career both of them were taken with some pseudoscientific ideas. They tried to prove the originality and European significance of their culture and nation.

Moritz Gottlieb Saphir. Egy elfeledett magyar zsidó író

Author(s): Ágnes Huszár / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2018

Nádas Péter, nyelv, történelem, zsidóság

Author(s): Tamás Ungvári / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2018

Horváth Andor (1944-2018)

Author(s): Imre József Balázs / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 06/2018

Spiró György Fogsága az idő fogságában

Author(s): István Szilárd Szász / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2008

What if Jesus had been crucified in the year he was born? Would he cease to exist as a person and as a God? If Jesus' birthyear is also his death's year, his role in history becames void, rewriting it.

Doktori értekezés a Korunk történetéből

Author(s): Péter Cseke,László Szörényi,Zsuzsa Tapodi,Miklós Bakk / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2013

A multimédiás kánon kialakulása a 19. századi magyar irodalomban

Author(s): Árpád Péter / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2009

Szajbély Mihály: Intermediális randevúk a 19. században. Arany, Kemény, Jókai & Co. Exkurzus: Fényképíró úr Nádas Péter, Pro Pannonia Kiadói Alapítvány, Pécs, 2008.

Bezdomni lokalpatriotizam

Author(s): László Végel / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 63.9/2001

Iz katoličke crkve izlazi mlada žena sa ćerkicom, posle nekoliko koraka, pomalo uplašeno, devojčica pogleda u teškim, sivim oblacima bremenito nebo i uzvikne: kada će doći anđeli? Majka ćuti, stisnutih usnica sumnjičavo te pogleda, primetila je da si čuo devojčicin uzvik. Poželiš da je umiriš: posle ovoliko decenija moguće je glasno postaviti pitanje i o anđelima. Majka se, međutim, još uvek boji odijuma, ne veruje da je opasnost sasvim minula. O anđelima, javno, nije dolično govoriti. […]

Nach Berlin…

Author(s): László Végel / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 63.9/2001

Stigao si. Izlaziš na berlinske ulice, pešačiš do iznemoglosti, iznova obilaziš znamenite trgove, padaš s nogu, bride ti stopala: tvrdoglava kontrola imaginacije. Ispituješ novopečene poznanike, gutaš novine, pomišljaš na davno čitane knjige, sa gusto ispisanim marginama. Iskušavaš iluziju čije ime je Evropa. Konačno možeš da prizoveš one duhovne i kulturne doživljaje koji su na tebe delovali snagom moralne obaveze. […]

Mi, Perzijanci

Author(s): Peter Krastev / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 55.1/1999

Short story „Mi, Perzijanci“ by Peter Krastev.

A megszólalás lehetőségei

Author(s): Orsolya Kész / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2018

Csontváry Zrínyi kirohanása című képe irodalmi keretben

Author(s): Gábor Hausner / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 09/2018

In the 1820s and 30s, the figure of Miklós Zrínyi and the story of Szigetvár’s siege has become a focus of attention in Hungarian literary discourse through the works of Ferenc Kazinczy, Ferenc Kölcsey, and Mihály Vörösmarty, followed by their prominence in the fine arts, due to Peter Krafft and Bertalan Székely. In the 1850s and 60s, the topic of Zrínyi gained new actuality in Hungarian literature through Mór Jókai (and others), and at the very end of the 19th century, against the false historicisation of the Hungarian Millennium, Kálmán Mikszáth and Géza Gárdonyi made attempts to deconstruct the myth. The same objective was expressed in the fine arts through the work of Csontváry. Scholarly literature is divided over his 1903 painting, entitled Zrínyi’s Outburst (The Siege of Szigetvár). Instead of the grandiose Romantic conception, the painter has chosen an individual artistic solution, reminiscent of genre painting, by placing the hero in a somewhat petty historical reality. Zrínyi’s quijotesque gesture, represented on this painting, sheds a rather peculiar, new light on the historical event.

1968 Csehszlovákiája és a magyar írók

Author(s): Csaba Kiss Gy. / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2018

This paper examines how the Hungarian contemporary writers and intellectuals reflected upon the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. It quotes negative criticism and condemnation expressed by, among others, Sándor Márai, Péter Veres, Gyula Illyés, Ferenc Karinthy.

Fügei Csató Zsófi élete

Author(s): László Fülöp / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2018

This paper tracks the life of Zsófi Csató, a woman wedded four times, based on her preserved testament taking up four printed pages. We can learn about the everyday life of a 17th-century woman of a noble birth, get acquainted with her family, her way of thinking, and her human characteristics.