Akadémia Kiadó

Gyula Krúdy is one of the greatest authors of Hungarian fiction, who is even now slightly underrated by literary public compared to his literary significance. Although he is not among novelists neglected by literary criticism, yet the number of works dealing with the characteristics of his narrative is rather small. Tibor Gintli's study contributes to compensating for this lack in literary criticism and intends to follow up the narrative processes of the depiction of personality present in novels by Krúdy. Gintli's book approaches this subject from the perspective of such basic characteristics of Krúdy's fiction, which is considered as the specific co-existence of the traditional and the radically new processes that are based on the former one, like the intertwining of remembrance modes, the playful evocation of literary tradition, the speciality of giving names, the reflection to history, the using of metaphors or the phenomenon of the self-interpreting monologues of characters also known as "arias". This interpretation intends to present the motion in the course of which the notion of the subject's unity is created, and is simultaneously broken down too by the poetical processes mentioned above, thus depicting the experience of the disunited personality.