Sindbad, the flâneur of provincial towns

Klára Ágnes Papp

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: XI. , Issue 2, 2016, p. 13-30., ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2016.11.2.13-30

Abstract:

This paper is part of a research which aimed to describe the chronotope of the small, provincial town, in contrast to the myth of the metropolis of the 19th century, in the first place based on the analysis of the Hungarian litterature in the first half of the 20th century. Krúdy’s provincial towns represent a unique variant of this chronotope. This study makes an attempt to explore it throught the works of the 1910’s, focusing on the stories of Sindbad. To the interpretation it invokes the figure of the „flaneur” described by Baudelaire, which one of the clues of the modernity according to Walter Benjamin’s interpretion.

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