The Face of the Mute Madman The Poems of Aladár Komlós in the Hungarian Anthologies Published in Slovakia

Zoltán Csehy

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: VIII. , Issue 2, 2013 p. 99-108, ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2013.8.2.99-108

Abstract

The present study deals with the representation and the ideologically or aesthetically determined judgement of the poetry of Aladár Komlós taking one by one the representative anthologies from 1926 to the present. Komlós adopted a very critical attitude to the value judgement in the systems of the Hungarian literature in slovakia. His poetry as decadent delicacy was pushed into the background, but in the level of aesthetics was always highly appreciated for expamle by prominent Hungarian poet, Mihály Babits. The study makes an attempt at perceiving the dinamism and determinism of the ideologically or aesthetically rapidly changing concepts observable in the representative anthologies.

Keywords: minority literature, Hungarian literature in Slovakia, poetry of Aladár Komlós, self-representation of the ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia, Hungarian anthologies from 1926.

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