Situation des Tsiganes en Hongrie à travers trois romans
By reading the works of Hungarian Gipsy writers, one can observe that the description of Gypsies’ life in several novels and short stories by several authors is very similar. This life is partly intimate, close and warm, partly hopeless, bleak and miserable, the possibility of the outbreak is little...
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2010
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | By reading the works of Hungarian Gipsy writers, one can observe that the description of Gypsies’ life in several novels and short stories by several authors is very similar. This life is partly intimate, close and warm, partly hopeless, bleak and miserable, the possibility of the outbreak is little. Three novels of three authors are analyzed here. The novels were written in several times and take place in several eras, but the scene is always a gypsy colony. Menyhért Lakatos (1926-2007) writes about the time before and during the World War II, Béla Osztojkán (1948-2008) about the fifties of the 20th century and Magda Szécsi (born in 1958) about the whole 20th century. The novel Füstös képek (Smoky pictures/faces), by Lakatos was published in 1975. It was, with the book of verse by Károly Bari ( Holtak arca fölé, Over faces of the dead) in 1971 in fact the beginning of the written Gipsy literature in Hungary. The novel Átyin Jóskának nincs, aki megfizessen (There is nobody, who should Jóska Átyin be payed by) by Osztojkán was published in 1996, the novel Időtépő ( Timeriper) by Magda Szécsi in 2006. After the presentation and analysis of the three novels, I try to find the cause of the similarities in description: it is the practically unchanged situation of the Gypsies in Hungary. They are ostracised even today as they have been for a long time.In one of the short stories of the young and talented gipsy poet and writer Tamás Jónás (born in 1973), « Jézus Csernelyben » (« Jesus in Csernely »), Jesus appears suddenly in a little village: he wants to help, but he cannot, he won’t be recognized. My question is the following: will the Gypsies in Hungary ever be truly redeemed? |
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