Magda Szabó’s Early Poetry and Her Sonnets

Adrienn Pataky

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: XII. , Issue 1, 2017, p. 33-50., ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2017.12.1.33-50

Abstract:

The aim of my paper’s first part is to introduce Magda Szabó’s “silencing” as a poet (she did not write poems anymore). It reveals the background of (literature) history and her recanonization into the group “újholdasok” – the circle of the journal, Újhold. The second part of the paper analyzes the early poems written by Magda Szabó. These poems are bounded forms, these contain antique cultural context, specific approach to time and space and they have natural analogy. The sonnet form strengthened the desire to get rid of constraints and weight of the war. In this poetry, there is significant autobiographical effect. The main catalyzer of poems are disappointment in adult life, post-war trauma, living in an unstable word, memories. These sonnets are small movements within borders, immature experiments that might be the “symptoms” of the 1940s in Hungary.

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