A társadalomtudományok és a 20. századi szociografikus próza kapcsolata

Absztrakt

In the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century, the literary representation of poverty returned to the frontline of Hungarian fiction as various aspects of poverty emerged as subject matter in contemporary prose and a new type of poetics developed in depicting poverty. However, in the twentieth century, poverty is not simply a theme within contemporary prose but a recurring epical tendency with manifold relations to the social sciences. The most important aspect of sociographical literature, the nature of the relationship between reality and fictionality, is a potential experimental field for creating a language and an epical world. Based on works written by Zsigmond Móricz, Zsolt Csalog, and Sándor Tar, the study sheds light on how this genre – written texts that can be perceived and interpreted as documentary sources – may become literary, fictional works of prose.