Sándor Márai jako československý autor?

• Authors: Pató, Marta

Title variants

EN

Sándor Márai as a Czechoslovak author?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The Hungarian writer Sándor Márai was a prominent figure in interwar Hungarian journalism and literature, and Hungarian writers working within the minority culture in interwar Czechoslovakia referred to him as a fellow countryman. By having a translation of his novel published in Czech he successfully penetrated into the margins of Czech literature, while his extensive review work also touches upon Czech authors (Olbracht and Čapek). Márai´s early poetics were formed at the intersection of Hungarian modernism and German expressionism. These two elements had a crucial influence on his subsequent artistic orientation, in which a prominent role was played by Márai´s relations with Prague German authors (Kafka, Werfel), whom he translated. Márai´s ambition to cease belonging to any local communities then led to the creation of work showing characteristics of deterritorization. The question of where Márai´s work belonged within the literature of interwar Czechoslovakia leads on to the question of how to actually define this literature.

Keywords

CS

Literatura. Literární život; literatura; literární věda; literatura a politika; středoevropská literatura; maďarská literatura

EN

literature; literary studies; literature and politics; Central European literature; Hungarian literature

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 694-710
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pató, Marta

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic