@article{Simon_2021, title={Exhaustion and Recycling: The Figures of the Danaids in Babits, Nietzsche, Freud, and Proust}, volume={1}, url={https://ojs.elte.hu/cec/article/view/1474}, DOI={10.47075/CEC.2021-2.04}, abstractNote={<p>This paper examines the works of representative modernist authors who have rewritten the myth of the Danaids in a self-reflective way. They reuse certain elements of the myth in order to address some of the crucial issues of cultural transmission: interpretation, poetic tradition and communication. The argument focuses on the recycling of the myth of the Danaids as a symbol of endless historical-philological (Nietzsche) and psychological (Freud) interpretations, the exhaustion and the reinvention of the classical literary tradition (Babits), and the impossible possibility of mediating the living voice through telephonic communication (Proust).</p>}, number={2}, journal={Central European Cultures}, author={Simon, Attila}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={84–118} }