IN:\u00a0<\/strong>Partit\u00fara Irodalomtudom\u00e1nyi foly\u00f3irat, Volume: XII. \u00a0, Issue 1, 2017, p. 65-92.,\u00a0ISSN 1336-7307<\/p>\n DOI:\u00a0<\/strong>10.17846\/PA.2017.12.1.65-92<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n The research endevaours to construct such a reading of Death of an Athlete<\/em>, which reads the fictitious biography of the novel in a a non-fictitious way, and thus examines the functioning of narrative activity based upon its reality, with particular emphasis on the ownership of the author of the memoir, the author’s language competencies, and the question of text structuring. As this reading method and method of interpretation is not inevitably given, the research creates it through an adaption of the well-known autobiographical pact of Philippe Lejeune. According to the norms of realist reading the main problematic points of the novel are the biography’s focus personality’s cited monologue, the narrator’s condensed, philosophic-poetic language \u2013 so characteristic to Mesz\u00f6ly\u2019s art \u2013 and the usage of the central metaphor of the Death of an Athlete<\/em>, the Butterfly, as a compositional metaphor. The paper addresses these questions by acknowledging authorial presence and with an interpretation shifting from realistic methods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n