时间：2024年6月17日14:00

地点：仓前校区恕园19-205

主讲内容：

A sample of my forthcoming book Modern Hungarian Culture and the Clsassics. Given modernism’s general fervour for myth, it is hardly surprising that the classics were especially important for many representatives of the Hungarian modernism. The lecture mentions some early and later poems by Mihály Babits, but focuses on bigger compositions: on two dramas and two novels. The two dramas are Babits’ Laodamia (1910) that tells a Greek myth in highly poetical form and Milán Füst’ Catullus (1928) that makes a bourgeois play from the ancient Roman poet’s life story; they are both representatives of the modernist post-tragedy. The two novels are Dezső Kosztolányi’s Darker Muses: the Poet Nero (1921), an elaboration of the Roman emperors story focusing on him as a poet, and Antal Szerb’s The Traveler, which makes a historian of ancient religion an important secondary character and build rather long academic discourses in the narrative, which perform a crucial hermeneutic function.

主讲人简介：

Péter Hajdu (1966, Budapest, Hungary) studied Literature, Greek and Latin at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, and wrote his dissertation on late Roman epic poetry. He is editor-in-chief of Neohelicon, a major international journal on comparative literature studies. Member of editorial or advisory boards of six international journals on literary studies (Proudy, Czech Republic; Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Germany; Recherche Litteraire/Literary Research, Belgium, Primerjalna književnost, Slovenia, Clotho, Slovenia, Slavica Litteraria Czech Republic). He did extensive research in the fields of comparative literature, theory of literature, narratology, and classical philology.