Arthur Koestler: Jewish Writer?
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Arthur Koestler: Jewish Writer?
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Mgr. Zénó Vernyik, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka, Fakulta přírodovědně-humanitní a pedagogická, Technická univerzita Liberec
Anotace:
Arthur Koestler was born into a multilingual Jewish family in Budapest. His university years were spent in a Zionist dueling fraternity in Vienna, through which he also met Ze'ev Jabotinsky. He lived more than once, for extended periods of time, in Mandate Palestine, and there are at least two biographies, Christian Buckard's (2004) Arthur Koestler: Ein extremes Leben and David Cesarani's (1998) Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind and an extended study, Tamás Staller's (2007) Menekülés az emlékezetbe: A zsidó Koestler tudásszociológiai portréja which consider Koestler a Jewish intellectual, whose Jewishness deeply influenced his thinking, even if at times Koestler himself downplayed or outright denied the importance of his Jewishness. But can Koestler be considered a Jewish writer, i.e. is his fiction Jewish fiction? The proposed talk takes a skeptical stance about this, although it also includes a discussion and appraisal of his two undeniably Jewish literary texts: his Zionist Thieves in the Night (1946) and his early and little-known Hungarian short story, "Méta" (1927).
Kdy?
- čtvrtek 17. října 2024, 14:10 h.
Kde? / Jak?
- Filozofická fakulta OU, Havlíčkovo nábřeží 38a, místnost XH 610 (budova XH)
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Zveřejněno / aktualizováno: 09. 10. 2024
