In the name of the Name (On editio and emendatio) Cover Image

A Név nevében (Editióról és emendatióról)
In the name of the Name (On editio and emendatio)

Author(s): Péter Balassa
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Jelenkor Alapítvány
Keywords: Esterházy Péter; Revised Edition; Harmonia Caelestis; contemporary hungarian prose

Summary/Abstract: “…At Esterházy the deficiency of work, talent or honour is out of the question, it is simply about the Name as calamity.” Péter Esterházy’s Javított kiadás (Revised Edition) was the greatest sensation in Hungarian literature in the year 2002. In this volume the writer reckons with his father’s past as an informer. Péter Balassa’s present essay is the renowned aesthetician’s last longer essay published in his life.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 392-397
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Hungarian