The pointillism of depicted objects – Gyula Krúdy’s A Portrait of a Woman in a Small Town
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2023.3.318Keywords:
Gyula Krúdy, Georges Seurat, Pointillism, depicted objects, coherence, cohesionAbstract
Krúdy’s prose is usually tied to Impressionism by research, and this is evidenced mostly by his grammatical features and word inventions. This study, however, presents the application of the technique of Pointillism (also known as Divisionism) known from painting in one of the writer's short stories in Sindbad. The text points highlighted from the short story are elements of the depicted objects, based on which the text sentences provide the intellectual continuity (coherence) of the short. Each of the main topic groups of the text – e. g. location(s), travel, social group(s) of men and women, their attire, etc. – show smaller components of the whole picture that the writer presents to the reader with the title of the story as a subject mark.
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