False Wishing Dreams. The Eroded Village by Dezső Szabó
False Wishing Dreams. The Eroded Village by Dezső Szabó

Summary/Abstract: Dezső Szabó's novel meeting such a remarkable popularity by the time of its publication declared a new start in the Hungarian social policy, in the national self-perception and in the Hungarian literature, respectively. The article seeks to present that the novel in fact varies the topos of both the theory of the romantic national character and the Romantic literature, the latter he criticised so sarcastically. While promising a social program he in fact creates an anachronistic, vitalistic national mithology.

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