Súlyos határsértés – Határhely(zet)ek, identitáshatárok Tolnai ottó Szeméremékszerek című regényében

Beatrix Visy

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XIV. , Issue 2, 2019, p. 73-82. , ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2019.14.2.73-82

Abstract:

We can accuse Tolnai’s novel entitled szeméremékszerek [genital piercings] of serious and repeated cross-border infringements. The narrator/main character commits a lot of cross-border infringement intentionally, unintentionally and figuratively, too. The story is set in the borderland and describes the current migrant situation on the Serbian-Hungarian border, the increased guarding of the border. The narrator, who wanders all over the borderland with two sterile glasses, also becomes accused and arrested, so he walks all over such places, as prison and psychiatry. We can interprete these places as deviant heterotopias by Foucault. In these fictitious situations the endless tale-tellings, the diversified stories and the chatterings are becoming weapons for the protagonist against interrogators or doctors. Tolnai, in the usual manner, queries by alter egos about the person of the narrator and the relation of the narrator and the protagonist.

Keywords: cross-border infringement, border situation, borders of identity, deviant heterotopia, Tolnai Ottó, novel, alter ego

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