G4 Doctoral dissertation (monograph)
Önéletírás, emlékezet, elbeszélés: Az emlékezö próza hermeneutikai aspektusai (2009)
Böhm, G. (2009). Önéletírás, emlékezet, elbeszélés: Az emlékezö próza hermeneutikai aspektusai [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Jyväskylä. Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities, 131. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8678-0
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All authors or editors: Böhm, Gabor
ISBN: 978-951-39-3764-5
eISBN: 978-951-39-8678-0
Journal or series: Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities
ISSN: 1459-4323
eISSN: 1459-4331
Publication year: 2009
Number in series: 131
Number of pages in the book: 171
Publisher: University of Jyväskylä
Place of Publication: Jyväskylä
Publication country: Finland
Publication language: Hungarian
Persistent website address: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8678-0
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Abstract
on the border of two approaches to remembrance: between the
philosophy of hermeneutic tradition and literary criticism. I adopt this
consideration to the analysis of Hungarian autobiographical novels of the 20th
century, drawing on concrete examples, where the generic problems present
themselves as aesthetic and rhetorical-poetic questions.
The first and second chapters of the thesis present the theoretical basis of
my approach. First I summarize the most important results of the
phenomenological and hermeneutical explications on remembering in the 20th
century. The next chapter analyses the most significant questions and
discussions on the research of autobiography, and tries to point out the explicit
and implicit hermeneutical preconceptions in these theories.
In the third chapter, I examine how the special hermeneutical aspects of
autobiography can operate as aesthetic and rhetorical-poetic dilemmas in the
case of a concrete literary text. With the close reading of Lajos Kassak' s novel,
Egy ember elete (A Man's Life, 1927-1935), I investigate the relationship of the self,
as it is constructed by the remembering perspective, with de Man's figures and
masks, which are created as the "memorial" of the biographical person by the
consciously operated memory work.
I study Emlekiratok konyve (Book of Memories, 1986) by Peter Nadas, which is
linked to Kassak' s novel in significant paratextual aspects. This rhetorical-poetic
universe is similar to that of Kassak, since the connections between the various
aspects of the lived reality and the artistic reflections on it undermine the
preconception of the separateness of documentary and fiction.
My other example of a text drawing on Kassak's poetics is Feherl6fia (The
Son of the White Horse, 1978) by Laszl6 Kemenes Gefin. In my reading,
Kemenes' s stream of texts contains a specific narrative of self-knowledge that
disseminates the self of remembering to narrated selves, constructing different
masks, similarly to the method of subject creation in Kassak' s novel. My
analysis examines the special figures of remembering, which construct the self,
and which set the language of obscenity and textual practices of pornography
into action on the level of the procedures of self-creation.
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