NÁBOŽENSKÁ A EXISTENCIÁLNA SKÚSENOSŤ V POÉZII JÁNOSA PILINSZKÉHO

• Authors: Zoltán Szénási

Title variants

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Existential and religious experience in the poetic oeuvre of János Pilinszky

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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One of the obvious experiences of the past 150 years is that while the post-Enlightenment secularized society is breaking away, occasionally openly opposes the institution of conventional religious life, the themes and discourse of the modern and postmodern literature still preserve their attachments to Christian traditions. In the first part of the paper, the author describes the change from the end of the middle ages to the present that led to this state focusing on the development of the relation between theology and literature. Past the changes of horizons of modernity and post modernity, the characteristics of the oeuvre of several significant poets and writers of the 20th century are determined by religious approach and the use of religious motifs. János Pilinszky, considered to be one of the most significant poets of Hungarian literature after World War II, belongs to them. In the second part of the paper, the author examines the way how the religious experience of modern man is reflected in his poetry.

Keywords

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JÁNOS PILINSZKY; HUNGARIAN LITERATURE; POETRY; POET

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6 (23)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 74 – 87

Contributors

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Zoltán Szénási

• Institute of literary studies, Research centre for the humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1118 Budapest, Ménesi út 11-13, Hungary