An edited volume was released about Agota Kristof by Sarolta Deczki and Ágnes Kovács, iASK researchers in Hungarian. The book was a joint publication of iASK and Gondolat Publishing.

The aim of this multi-year research project is to show how a Hungarian writer who grew up in Kőszeg, was forced into exile, and changed languages became a defining figure in contemporary world literature, and how her oeuvre can be integrated into Hungarian literary and cultural discourse, not only in a national but also in a transnational context. Agota Kristof’s oeuvre has thus been receiving increasing attention within Hungarian literary historiography; nevertheless, it can still be said that she does not occupy a position commensurate with her significance in Hungarian literary public consciousness or within the canon. Although her status remains peripheral, contemporary theoretical trends have quite naturally directed renewed attention toward her work. Major themes of contemporary literature and literary theory—such as trauma, the working-through of the past, emigration, nomadic literature, hybridity, and transnationalism—are present both in the Trilogy and in the shorter writings. Numerous scholars and critics have taken note of this, and in light of these perspectives, a re-interpretation of the oeuvre has begun. The Agota Kristof phenomenon is unsettling, yet at the same time an exciting challenge for our understanding of literature.

ISBN: 978-615-5742-61-3

Pages: 230 p.

Price: 4990 Ft

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