Variations of the Border in Sándor Hunyady’s Prose Cover Image

A határ variációi Hunyady Sándor prózájában
Variations of the Border in Sándor Hunyady’s Prose

Author(s): Krisztina Kovács
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: Sándor Hunyady; border; spatio-poetic discourse; modernism;

Summary/Abstract: In order to list Sándor Hunyady’s life spaces that condense a cultural mixture, one needs to review the main ideas and theses around a poetical discourse on space. The paper focuses on the aspects of these models which can be applied to literary texts, making use of the concepts of representative theorists of the poetical discourse on space. The rich identity patterns inseparable from Hunyady’s life conduct and life spaces are the places partly discovered by travels, as categories needed to “read” various scenes from Cluj, Budapest, Báčka, Partium or Transylvania. We can get closer to their understanding by analysing the patterns of the border, the blurred boundaries of the night, the mythology of the city. The paper attempts to interpret Sándor Hunyady’s work, based on spatial forms of his prose and using some of the typical examples of the border-experience, as a universe embedded into the literary terrains of modernism, expressing the visions of space in the age.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIV/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 12-21
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Hungarian