Истраживања (Dec 2015)
INTERCULTURAL PLAY IN THE WORLD OF THE NOVELS OF DANILO KIŠ AND OTTÓ TOLNAI
Abstract
Dániel Kiss/Danilo Kiš with Hungarian-Serbian-Croatian-Jewish ancestry, and (Kracsun) Ottó Tolnai with the Yugoslavian-Serbian-Vojvodinian one – both are equally figures and text creators of a cultural (national, social) intermediary position. In case of both writers, the intermediary position (which can be specified as Central-Eastern-European as well) generates a multi-dimen- sional, dynamic text world, abundant in transgressing, as well as back and forth connections. The purpose of the study is the analysis of the texts of early novels by Danilo Kiš and Ottó Tolnai in the context of the Southern Slav area, the Hungarian cultural region and European posi- tioning. The gallery of fractionality of the literary texts to be examined, their generic and inter- cultural transgressions, the frequently strange/peculiar alter egos developing from the various cultural contexts, appearing in the situations of one’s being cut-off, offer the possibility of express- ing, synthesising a multiple, exciting cultural model, representing the cultural patterns found in the 1960’s.
