A Modern and Bourgeois Image of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania between the Two World Wars Cover Image

Modern, polgárosodó Kolozsvár-arculat a dualizmuskori Erdélyben
A Modern and Bourgeois Image of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania between the Two World Wars

Author(s): Júlia Anna Makkai
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: image; space; time; novel; region

Summary/Abstract: My research analyses the representations of space and the overall image of the region of Transylvania in the novelMilionaires of Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvári milliomosok by György Méhes. I have observed constant motifs and formations thatcan be applied in shaping the image of Transylvania in contemporary and 20th century Hungarian literature in general. In thisstudy I intend to track the modality in which the representations of Transylvania are shaped in the novel of György Méhes, andalso, the way these infl uence the consideration of spaces. There is an image of Transylvania which shows the region as a placefar away from Hungary, exotic and archaic, extremely close to nature. I also intend to discover how close is the image of theregion in the novel to this archaic, nostalgic image of Transylvania.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 89-100
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian