Conception of central Europe in Slavonic and non-Slavonic relationships
Vol.14,No.1(2011)
Abstract
Keywords:
Central Europe; Hungary; comparative studies; Slavic literary history; S. Eckhardt; G. Konrád
Pages:
87–94
The paper deals with the Hungarian conception of central Europe and indicates some HungarianSlavonic relationships. The idea of great Hungary, which included also Slovakia, served as a positive example of coexistence of various nationalities within the multiethnic Hungarian state. In the context of literary studies, Hungarian comparatists have raised the question of central Europe as a scientific problem (S. Eckhardt, G.M. Vajda, G. Hegedüs, G. Kemény, J. Hankiss, etc.). In the 1980s, the concept of central Europe was revived by the intellectuals, mostly the dissidents and writers from the then Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Alongside M. Kundera's essay The Tragedy of Central Europe (1984), it was especially G. Konrád who in his Antipolitik. Mitteleuropäischer Meditationen (1985) associated the central-European identity with scepticism and irony as well as with its cultural and political belonging to the West.
Central Europe; Hungary; comparative studies; Slavic literary history; S. Eckhardt; G. Konrád
87–94