Mystifications. The role of pseudonyms in postmodern Hungarian literature

This study focuses on literary mystification, which has become extremely common in Central European postmodern literature in recent decades. Mystification is essentially a game related to the authorial name, to pseudonyms, masks and various alter egos. The paper attempts to separate three procedures of postmodern text creation by considering the aspect of mystification: early postmodern text creation, based on the principle of imitation ; areferential postmodernism , based on simulation , and the anthropological postmodern , which is present through a transitive strategy . The study analyses the pseudonymised works, among others, of István Baka, Árpád Tőzsér, Péter Esterházy, Lajos Parti Nagy, András Ferenc Kovács and Zoltán Csehy

Aesthetics · Art · Imitation · Literature · Postmodern theatre · Postmodernism · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology