Psychological proses of Géza Csáth. Part 2

  • Erzsébet Jancsikity MNM Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum és Könyvtár
Keywords: psychological prose, first person narration, third person narration, psycho-narration, qouted interior monolog, internal focalization, nonlinear narrative

Abstract

The psychological narrative was distinctive type of Hungarian literature in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century.This paper investigates the psychological short stories of Géza Csáth, and presents the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters. The Csáth’s short stories are presented specialty extreme acts (eg. child murder, matricide) and abnormal mental states (anxiety, paranoia). The writer has been trying to describe the psychological causes of strange acts.

 

Author Biography

Erzsébet Jancsikity, MNM Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum és Könyvtár

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Published
2017-12-17
Section
Literary resources