Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature 1st Edition by Zsolt Cziganyik ISBN 3031092252 9783031092251

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ISBN 10: 3031092252

ISBN 13: 9783031092251 

Author: Zsolt Czigányik

This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon. Utopian studies is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, and this research integrates literary hermeneutics with ideas and methods from political science and the history of ideas. In doing so, it argues that Hungarian utopianism was influenced by the region’s (and Hungarian culture’s) position of permanent liminality between Western and Eastern European patterns of power structures, social and political order. After a thorough methodological introduction, some early modern texts written in Hungary are discussed, while the detailed analyses focus on nineteenth-century texts, written by Bessenyei, Madách, and Jókai, whereas the twentieth century is represented by Karinthy, Babits and Szathmári. In the interpretations the results of contemporary scholarship is applied, particularly the works of Lyman Tower Sargent, Gregory Claeys and Fátima Vieira.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Circulation of Utopian Ideals in Hungary
Chapter 3. The Moderate Optimism of the Enlightenment: Bessenyei in Totoposz
Chapter 4. Failed Utopias in Human History: The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách
Chapter 5. Utopia Proper in Hungarian Literature: Eternal Peace and Future Technology in Mór Jókai’s The Novel of the Century to Come
Chapter 6. Gulliver in Hungary: Karinthy’s Faremido and Capillaria
Chapter 7. Dystopia in Interwar Hungary: Pilot Elza or the Perfect Society by Mihály Babits
Chapter 8. Sándor Szathmári’s Dystopias and the Positivistic Simplification of Humans
Chapter 9. Conclusion

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