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Magda Szabó: Finding Home in the Homeland in Post-1956 Hungary
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7196-5457
2020 (English)In: SIC - Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, ISSN 1847-7755, Vol. 11, no 3, p. 1-23Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In Iza’s Ballad, Magda Szabó writes about the lives of two doctors who meet and fall in love at university. “Don’t get too involved with politics,” experienced Antal warns a seemingly ingénue Iza. To which she responds: “Politics will be my life as long as I live.” In this brief encounter, Szabó connects the predominant themes of her oeuvre: politics and life, or, to be more specific, Communism and the domestic. In its analysis of Iza’s Ballad (1963), Katalin Street (1969), and The Door (1987), this article illustrates how Szabó’s descriptions of the domestic convey the impact of Hungary’s troubled political history on the concept of the home/homeland. The article illustrates the ways in which Szabó contrasts the relatively comfortable years of Goulash Communism with the hardship endured during WWII, under Rákosi, and during the 1956 Revolution, to convey the lasting effects of the Soviet occupation on the notion of home.

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University of Zadar , 2020. Vol. 11, no 3, p. 1-23
Keywords [en]
Magda Szabó, Hungary, homeland, 1956 Revolution, Goulash Communism, János Kádár
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Languages and Literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-40801DOI: 10.15291/sic/1.11.lc.6ISI: 000615782700006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85098787658OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-40801DiVA, id: diva2:1511275
Available from: 2020-12-18 Created: 2020-12-18 Last updated: 2021-02-25Bibliographically approved

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