Exits, Irradiance from the Province, the Intermediate (Stations of Intermadiateness) and the Quest for a Station on the (Vast) World in the Art of Writing of Erzsébet Juhász Köztességek (köztes állomások) és nagyvilági állomáskeresések Juhász Erzsébet írásművészetében

Abstract

In my study I examine the idea of spaciousness, the quest for stations in the (vast) world, and the techniques of irradiance and swarming of Erzsébet Juhász’s work in connection with the province, the marginal and minority state of being, as well as the experience of enclosedness caused by the transgressive state of war. Furthermore, I touch upon some of the poetics and points-of-view that had served as examples for the writer, such as Kornél Szenteleky, Miklós Mészöly and László Krasznahorkai. I interpret Juhász’s essays with the help of the term “born and bred stranger” and Merleau-Ponty’s “»transcendental strangeness« that is inside every private”. Taking some aspects of minority theories into account – the gesture of the killing of the father (Harold Bloom), the introduction of the functional effects of the mutually strengthening forces of textual implants of the private and the strange (Zoltán Virág), and the collation of Robert Bolaño’s The Wild Detectives with Műkedvelők [Dilettants] – I give new layers of interpretation to the artwork.