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Dancing Lessons for the Elderly and Advanced

Notes on the Hungarian Reception of Bohumil Hrabal

Author(s): Marta Pató
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Památník národního písemnictví
Keywords: reception of works of literature; intertextuality; Hungarian literature; central European grotesque; postmodern literature

Summary/Abstract: The works of BohumilHrabal (1914–1997) have been published in Hungarian from 1965 to the present day. He is the most translated Czech author in Hungarian. The Hungarian school of comparative literature sees his writing from the 1960s as being part of the trend of central European grotesque, which Hungarian postmodernists draw on today.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 46
  • Page Range: 83-94
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Czech