Sándor Márai sulla riannessione di Felvidék (1938). Storia, letteratura, emozioni

Judit Papp

doi:10.6093/1826-753X/8309

Judit Papp University of Naples L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/1826-753X/8309

Keywords: discourse analysis, emotional language, emotions, Felvidék, First Vienna Award, Sándor Márai

Abstract

Article english title: Sándor Márai on the reannexation of Upper Hungary (1938). History, literature, and emotions

This paper aims at reconstructing the image of Felvidék (Upper Hungary) present in Sándor Márai’s works and, at the same time, reflects on the writer’s relationship to his native land before and after its reannexation to Hungary under the First Vienna Award signed on November 2, 1938. By highlighting the experiences and thoughts that the event evokes in Márai, an attempt is made to understand the dialectics with which in 1938 and in 1939 his writing moves between reason and rationality and emotions and affective states in relation to the political circumstances and to its historical dimensions. The characteristics of the emotional discourse and the words that designate emotions are investigated in Márai using his specific concept of ‘family’ – referring to the inhabitants of the region reannexed to Hungary and therefore ‘returning to their homeland’ – and the descriptions of the material and spiritual landscapes of Felvidék in which the writer reveals particularly informative connections between the rational and emotional spheres.

Author Biography

Judit Papp, University of Naples L'Orientale

Judit Papp (<jpapp@unior.it>) is a researcher of Hungarian Language and Literature at the University of Naples L'Orientale. She holds a PhD in "Modern and Comparative Linguistics and Literature" (European School of Advanced Studies, Naples, 2007). Her research areas include Hungarian studies (language, literature, cultural and civilizational history) and translation. She has published 2 monographs and 44 articles. She is coordinator of the Editorial Board of the band A journal “Studi Finno-Ugrici”. She is a member of the Inter-University Center for Hungarian and Central-Eastern European Studies (CISUECO), secretary of the Center for Studies on Learning and Disciplinary Didactics (CSADD, UniOr) and a member of several research centers and the UniOr research project ALMA: Atlante Linguistico Multimediale della diversità Alimentare bio/culturale. She currently conducts research on children's literature, Hungarian language as L2, Hungarian neologisms, and Budapest odonyms.