Discourse formations in readings of the Szindbád narratives

Dobos, István (2014) Discourse formations in readings of the Szindbád narratives. Hungarian Studies, 28 (2). pp. 305-314. ISSN 0236-6568

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Abstract

This paper delineates critical approaches to the reading of the Szindbád narratives by Hungarian author Gyula Krúdy, which basically have tended to assume a balance of the sensual and the spiritual, as well as literal and figurative meanings. I propose an interpretative model focusing on the question as to how an imaginary event exists in the consciousness of a literary character, and how that character’s perception can be related in the narrative. There is not much on this short-fiction poetical issue in the secondary literature, much as there is very little on notions of overlaps between reality and fiction or the transformative text-events of becoming a creation.

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