Magický realizmus v maďarskej literatúre (Otázky priestoru, času a postmodernizmu v románoch)
Magical Realism in Hungarian Literature

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with Hungarian fiction that can be interpreted within the context of magical realism. It discusses the research of Tamás Bényei, Ágnes Klára Papp, Péter R ácz I. and other representatives of Hungarian literary criticism specializing in magical realism. Hungarian magical realism brings up the notions of Central Europeanism (Miklós Mészöly), historiographical metafiction (László Márton, Zsolt Láng, László Dar vasi) and multiculturalism (use of names, hybridity; László Darvasi, Alfonz Talamon). This paper places magical realism within the context of postmodern literature, even though according to some Hungarian literary critics the typical features of magical realism (story-telling, realistic depiction of the world, magic, mystery, mythology) stand in stark contrast to those of postmodernism (puns, parody, irony, intertextuality). Therefore, my paper differentiates between three strategies (early postmodernism, irreferential postmodernism, anthropological postmodernism) of postmodern literature, regarding magical realism as part of the early postmodern strategy.

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