IN:\u00a0<\/strong>Partit\u00fara Irodalomtudom\u00e1nyi foly\u00f3irat, Volume: X\u00a0,\u00a0Issue 2, 2015, p. 61-78., ISSN 1336-7307<\/p>\n DOI:\u00a0<\/strong>10.17846\/PA.2015.10.2.61-78<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n Eating is a vital human activity, it is necessary for survival, and it is deeply related to social habits. The way how people nourish themselves expresses the indispensable needs of the social body. The human body is the invention of a culture, it has metaphorical meanings to the world, it can symbolize ideological views. Each society determines what food is, how we should eat and what is allowable to eat. Parti Nagy Lajos shows us different societies in his books through the act of eating. One of his characters lives under the Stalinist dictatorship, while others live in capitalism. What is common in these societies is that both try to transform men into productive, profitable human-machine hybrids. The writer\u2019s main characters\u2019 most important goal is to struggle against these coercive forces. The state ideologies try to transform not only people\u2019s daily habits, eating rituals, and physical appearances but also their ways of thinking \u2013 the protagonists of PNL try to fight with this oppressive power by making their own bodies useless for the regime. in my study i\u00a0am analyzing those works of Pnl, where food and its society-related concerns have been given a central place (in Parti Nagy Lajos\u2019s works).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n