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Egy élet a kéziratok tükrében
A Life Reflected in Manuscripts

Author(s): Réka Nagy
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: autobiographical narratives; peasant poet; collective remembrance; ethnography

Summary/Abstract: The author inquires into the motives for someone to write an autobiography, and analyzes the biographical knowledge’s attributes in the life of a “peasant poet”, Miklós Szabó (1907-1982). Miklós Szabó wrote his biography several times throughout his life, and these works reflect identity’s narrative and situational nature.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 57-64
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian