Európai kultúrminták Danilo Kiš és Tolnai Ottó szövegeiben
European Cultural Patterns in Danilo Kiš’ and Ottó Tolnai’s Texts

The Encyclopedia of the Dead, A Lighthouse for Sale

Summary/Abstract: The study looks at texts generated in intermediate circumstances, namely, the series of stories by Danilo Kiš and the stained-water prose written by Ottó Tolnai. The plasticity of the genre and the intertextual aspects of play-acting alongside family and social mithologies unfold the cultural literary map of the regions depictid in the texts by using European cultural models (maps, family trees, encyclopedia, azure, death, Book of the Dead, Necronomicon). The accented elements (the flow, the estuary and the sea) meet in a single destination, in the leitmotif which generates the texts: the sphere of the (blue) death. The aim of the research is to analyze these texts and unfold the intertextual relationships between the texts.

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