Due stalinismi dell’anima, due scritture che li “elaborano”: Ferenc Karinthy, “Muratori” (1950) e Imre Sarkadi, “La vigliacca“ (1961)

Beatrice Töttössy

doi:10.6093/1826-753X/9998

Beatrice Töttössy University of Florence http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3415-4169

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/1826-753X/9998

Keywords: Ferenc Karinthy, Imre Sarkadi, Literary Stalinism

Abstract

The article juxtaposes two authors of the same generation, with fundamentally different social backgrounds and literary training; the interest in their mode of writing stems from the cultural climate they share and which leads them, in each case, to measures of realism, albeit from opposite sides.

Author Biography

Beatrice Töttössy, University of Florence

Beatrice Tottossy (beatrice.tottossy@unifi.it)
Full Professor of Finno-Ugric philology (Disciplinary Scientific Area, 10: Ancient History, Philology, Literature and Art History). Department of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology of the University of Florence.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Hungarian and comparative literature, Theory (Aesthetics, Literary Ontology, Computational Literary Studies) and literary history (Italian-Hungarian literary and cultural studies, Memory and Trauma Studies, Cultures of Dissent, Writers/Scholars correspondence), Theory and practice of the scholarly digital editing.
PROJECTS AND RESPONSABILITIES: 2021-2024: Head of the Inter-University Center for Hungarian and Central-Eastern European Studies (CISUECO); 2020-to date: Scientific co-director of the journal Studi Finno-Ugrici (Anvur, class A); 2017-to date: Management committee member for Italy of the COST Action CA16213, "New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent"; 2016-to date (with Maurizio Ceccarelli): Electronic edition of Charles de Tolnay correspondence from 1919 to 1981 (Casa Buonarroti Foundation, Florence); 2019-to date (Dept. PhD programme, Supervisor): "The memory of dissent in contemporary Hungarian women writers"; 2017-2021 (University Strategic Doctoral Program, Supervisor): "Experiments and Applications of AI for the Digital Humanities: Cognitive Computing and the Study of Literary Epistolography"; 2013-2016 (Aggregate partner): "EMMA - European Multiple MOOC Aggregator" (CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7, Grant Agreement N°: 621030, coord. Rosanna De Rosa, University of Naples Federico II); 2012-2016 (Invited researcher): "Critical edition of theoretical works (1930-1937) of József Attila" (Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, Id. 105626).

Two Stalinisms of the soul, two writings that "elaborate" them: Ferenc Karinthy, "Muratori" (1950) and Imre Sarkadi, "La vigliacca" (1961)

Abstract

Author Biography