Fent és lent és fent és lentMadarász Éva: Hullámvasút

Patrik Baka L. – Anikó Kurucz

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XX. , Issue 1, 2025, page 75-84. , ISSN 1336-7307 DOI: 10.17846/PA.2025.20.1.75-84

Abstract:

The study analyses Éva Madarász’s novel Hullámvasút [Roller Coaster], which can be approached both within the generic tradition of the girls’ novel and in the context of trauma literature. The narrative foregrounds the motif of divorce and the disintegration of the family— an experience that fundamentally shapes the novel’s poetics, characterised by a roller-coasterlike, erratic and often associative narrative style, marked by abrupt emotional shifts and temporal leaps. In the process of coping with trauma, the protagonist is primarily aided by a broadening understanding of the world and by weighing her own fate against that of her peers.

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