Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023)
Research Article

Getting out of Time: Krasznahorkai Feels Used Up

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Gábor Szabó
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Szeged
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47075/CEC.2023-2.06

Published 2023-12-15

Keywords

  • historical time,
  • illusion of reality,
  • pathology of society,
  • absurd,
  • struggle for history

How to Cite

Szabó, Gábor. 2023. “Getting Out of Time: Krasznahorkai Feels Used Up”. Central European Cultures 3 (2):117-24. https://doi.org/10.47075/CEC.2023-2.06.

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Abstract

The essay examines how historical time appears in the novel Zsömle odavan [Zsömle Feels Used Up], that is closely linked into László Krasznahorkai’s previous oeuvre in many ways. The satirical depiction of a society falling out of history, and the dispelling of absurd illusions places it within the historical-philosophical framework typical of Krasznahorkai’s novels, primarily creating its continuity with the novels Satantango and Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming.

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