Author(s): Tibor KOSZTOLÁNCZY

Title: ANDRÁS SÜTŐ: FROM THE SECRETS OF THE DANUBE

Source: Sz. Simon (ed.): 13th International Conference of J. Selye University. Language and Literacy Section. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-412-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/4126.2022.81

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2021, 81-85

Published on-line: 2022

Language: en

Abstract: András Sütő’s short story evoked the memories of a Transylvanian-Hungarian fishing and hunting group which arrived in a village in Dobruja in September 1970, to explore the Danube Delta for three weeks. The writer – who kept a diary about his adventures – was guided in the water-world by an ado-lescent boy, Alyosha. I try to analyze in this lecture that, through the violent life of this boy and his mother, Sütő explored the problems of stigmatization and social exclusion related to minorities in a wider context. Sütő used first person narrative in his story, and his pen was led by his anxiety for the survival of Hungarian minorities abroad, primarily the one in Transylvania. The narrative and thematic characteristics of the short story strongly resembled the style of Sütő’s other writings in the 1980s, through, the omission of didactic remarks was a more effective artistic tools: From the Secrets of the Danube dealt with the issue with a subtle approach.

Keywords: András Sütő, Lipovans, Transylvania, Ethnic Minority, Trauma

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