Equation with two unknowns by Ivan Horváth

Abstract

The study is an attempt to clarify in which way the (postmodemistic) problem of rupture between denotated and denotation occured and solve also earlier in the modernistic texts of Ivan Horváth. ’’Reality” in the novel Rovnica s dvoma neznámymi (The Equation with Two Unknowns) is being changed according to the fact what is stressed at the momement - decadent-nietzsche or freud-nietzsche rhetoric. In the same time there are disproportions discovered in the speech of the narrator. The disproportions are between logical and rhetoric level of the narration. According to the analysis of the novel the whole work of Ivan Horvath could be perceived as a conscious linguistic work on redudant (that means linguisticky complex) canals for the filling the praxis of an authentic life.

Keywords

• literary modernism
• ivan horváth
• rhetorical analysis
• language