Sokk és sakk: a téboly elõfutárai
Shock and Chess: The Harbingers of Madness

Summary/Abstract: The protagonists of Arrigo Boito’s The Black Bishop (1867) and Gyula Juhász’s short story Döbling (1923) are victims of the nineteenth-century revolutions in Jamaica and Hungary, respectively. In their respective struggles for racial equality and national independence, they teeter on the brink of madness, while chess offers a possible path towards recovery. The comparative analysis examines the connections between the two texts, with particular attention to their historical, intertextual and intermedial references.

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