The 2002 Nobel Prize to Imre Kertész is a symptom: Hungary is now weltliterarisch. The historical process – which has seen Hungarian writers working since the 1970s to gain ontological autonomy for their field, to write in a language that is not mendacious, to go beyond the 'modern' of real socialism to a 'postmodern' in which reality is not "described", but "employed", and to anthropic ends – is at a standstill, it is greeted abroad as a common heritage. According to Ungheria 1945-2002. La dimensione letteraria – which concludes a prolonged period of analytical work (see Scrivere postmoderno in Ungheria, 1995, and Scrittori ungheresi allo specchio, 2003) – the Hungarian contribution to the contemporary era lies in its sense for this anthropic function of literature (even though the context now seems to want to thwart this effort).
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Book Title
Ungheria 1945-2002. La dimensione letteraria
Authors
Beatrice Tottossy
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2012
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© 2012 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-311-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-311-3
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-731-0
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361