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Model of the hungarian post modernism - Peter Esterhazy's new language -

Esterhazy is the most famous writer in Hungary. His work <Termelesi regeny(A Novel of Production)> is a parodistic novel subverting the dictatorial conventions of socialist realism. The book established Esterhazy's place as an acclaimed and immensely popular writer in Hungary. He writes novels, short stories, essays and drama. His work is characterized by stylistic diversity and formal experimentation - pastiche, quotations, fragments, puns, allusions, subtexts and much more - which show his interest in language philosophy. <Bevezetes a szepirodalomba> (An Introduction to Literature) is the best known work. It is a collection of his earlier and new works, resulting in a monumental montage or "supra-novel" of text and typographical and pictorial elements. The main concern of the book is the ontology of the literary act - the way personal experience builds up to a public literary artifice. Esterhazy's formal experimentation has been the dominating feature of his work since the publication of 1979, and since then the stylistic diversity of his output has signalled a continuing and fundamental restlessness with the novel as a genre perhaps even with 'text' tout court. His work features such multiple literary techniques as pastiche, fragments, subtexts, puns, aphorisms, externalised interior monologues, repetition, pregnant allusions, arcane references, jokes, disjointed dialogues, indirect discourses, and much more. Esterhazy's prose is jumpy, allusive, and slangy... there is vividness, an electric crackle. The sentences are active and correct. Physical details leap from the murk of emotional ambivalence. He has continuosly attempted to explore the new possibility of the Hungarian literature with his own new language and succeed to attain it. His new challange to the new literature is worth to be the model of the Hungarian post-modernism and the new literary possibility.