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Dénes Tamás's review of "Az első világvége, amit együtt töltöttünk" (The First End of the World we Spent Together) by Zsuzsa Selyem.
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The aim of this study is to build a comparative understanding of children’s desires and imagination as distinctive phenomena by interpreting their presence in surrealist and magical realist literature. First, the author provides definitions for these concepts from a philosophical and psychological point of view, using the interpretations of many authors from antiquity to the present, starting with Plato and Aristotle, continuing with Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Hegel and ending with modern views of English, Davison and Kordic. The author then dwells on the interrelationship between desire and related concepts like consciousness, the beginning of thought, creativity, language, as well as concepts internal to desire, such as the relationship between desire and its needs or its subjectivity. The analysis focuses specifically on the expression techniques in these two poetic discourses. Notably, special emphasis is put on the presence, action and significance of repressed desires and child fantasy in several paradigmatic examples from surrealist and magical realist literature such as Breton, Dedinac, Ristic, Vinaver, Esquivel, Morrison, Chingo, Mihajlovski, Lafazanovski. Finally, this paper highlights the similarity between these two poetics in terms of their goals. In surrealism this comes down to the urgent desire for radical transformation of the world and the creation of a new variant, while in magical realism the goal is somewhat milder and consists of pointing out the need to correct the existing world, without ambitions to create a new world.
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For the last few decades, epidemics have swept into works of fiction. Besides driving plot lines in literature, film, television, video games and other forms of popular media, they have provided ubiquitous metaphors for the social transmission of ideological and ethical notions and the imposition of various forms of power, as well as expressions of social and cultural anxiety, especially in moments of uncertainty or crisis. Florian Andrei Vlad’s New Flesh, Old Demons: Contagion Narratives in Post-Cold War U.S. Culture addresses the visual and narrative constructions of pestilential bodies in post-Cold War American films and television, with incursions in literature, placing a strong emphasis on contextualization and historicization, beginning with an acknowledgment of the impact of the Gothic tradition on significant developments leading up to the current cultural stage.postmodernism, alterity figure, liberal humanism
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Fragments from Csaba Nánó's novel "Kertvárosi keringő" (Suburbian Waltz).
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