Quo Vadis, Homo Viator? / Journeys in Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures

• Authors: Zsuzsa Tapodi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In Jože Hradil’s Faceless Pictures [Slike brez obrazov] the characters go astray or get into the attraction of adventures and set off for a journey. The spiritual and identity shifts can be interpreted along these eternal human desires as well. A patchwork of remembering and forgetting, the internal journeys of identity preservation, spontaneous or forced assimilation, tolerance and all kinds of politics-induced human deformations are depicted in the novel. The text traces the roles of the journey defined by Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrant such as the search for justice, peace, immortality and finding the spiritual center. This study examines how the concrete physical journey changes into an internal road determining the evolution of personality.

Keywords

EN

20th-century history; migration; travellers; identity

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 113-121

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Zsuzsa Tapodi

• Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania) Department of Humanities

References

• Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. 1969. Dictonnaire des symboles. Mythes, reves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres. [Dictionary of Symbols. Myths, Dreams, Customs, Gestures, Shapes, Figures, Colours, Numbers.] Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont.
• Hradil, Jože. 2013. Képek arc nélkül. [Faceless Pictures.] Trans. into Hungarian by Klára Körtvélyessi. Budapest: Európa. [Original edition: Hradil, Joze, 2012. Slike brez obrazov. Maribor: Pivec.]
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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ausp-2015-0040