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MÓR JÓKAI’S ASIAN UTOPIA(S)

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Hajdu P.

World Literature Studies

2021

vol. 13

issue 2

56 - 68

The paper analyses Mór Jókai’s The Novel of the Century to Come from the viewpoint of the local aspects of cultural embeddedness of the complex and competing utopian discourses. The whole novel describes a future in which, after difficult struggles, a globally united and perfect society is created. However, two different small-scale utopias are also described; one of them (Otthon) is located in Europe and shows traits of the national-capitalist dream; the other (Kin-Tseu) is imagined to be in Central Asia and presented first from the perspective of Chinese historical sources, in a form similar to a colonialist pornotopia. Then an omniscient narrator proves that the Chinese image of Kin-Tseu is false, and presents it as it “really” is. This latter utopia solicits an eco-critical reading, since its basic problem, i.e. the sustainability of a growing population in a closed environment, is crucial for current ecocriticism. The experimentation with various (including Western and Eastern) utopian traditions function as a unique poetic feature in Jókai’s novel.

NATIONAL PECULIARITIES IN APPROACHING THE CLASSICS: THE CASE OF CATULLUS WITH HUNGARIAN MODERNISM

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Hajdu P.

World Literature Studies

2023

vol. 15

issue 3

4 – 12

The Greco-Roman Classics form a body of texts that belong indisputably to world literature, yet they are often left outside the scope of comparative literature because of their ambiguous relationship to the concept of national literature. This article describes the current situation of academia in which the comparative approach to the Classics is limited and tests the possibility of regarding them as a code or a language of comparison. The attitudes of various national literatures towards the Classics in different historical periods are revealing not only of ancient literary traditions but also about modern ones, and provide a solid basis for comparison. The second part of the article discusses the presence of Catullan poetry in Hungarian modernist literature as a case study. Roman poetry was invoked mostly by some progressive circles of the interwar literary field to promote the development of various linguistic facets of the modernist poetic discourse. This example shows how the Classics enter the world literary space through national literatures’ active involvement with them.

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MÓR JÓKAI’S ASIAN UTOPIA(S)

NATIONAL PECULIARITIES IN APPROACHING THE CLASSICS: THE CASE OF CATULLUS WITH HUNGARIAN MODERNISM