JUGOSŁOWIAŃSKIE MARZENIE. MITOLOGIZACJA POŁUDNIOWOSŁOWIAŃSKIEJ OJCZYZNY WĘGIERSKIEGO ARTYSTY W POECIE ZE SMALCU OTTÓ TOLNAIEGO
A Yugoslav Dream. Mythologisation of the Poet's Southern Slavic Homeland in the "Poet Made of Lard" by Ottó Tolnai

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to problematize the concept of Yugoslavia as it appears in an extended interview conducted by Lajos Parti Nagy with Ottó Tolnai, a Hungarian artist who lives in Vojvodina. The interview was published under a title “A Poet Made of Lard” (“Költő disznózsírból. Egy rádióinterjú regénye”). The book can be interpreted in numerous ways and it’s digressive narrative structure, mixing of genres and methods of composition seem to allow for that. It must be emphasized, however, that one of the topics always present in Tolnai’s narrative, which connects all the motives, is the subject of Yugoslavia and various entanglements in it— biographic, artistic and political

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