<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In my study I deal with descents to the underworld and hell in literature in the 20<sup>th</sup> century and in contemporary literature. I will focus on modem literary reinterpretations of the myth of Orpheus, starting with Rilke’s Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. In Seamus Heaney’s The Underground. in the Hungarian Istvan Baka’s Descending to the Underground of Moscow and in Czesław Miłosz’s Orpheus and Eurydice underworld appears as underground, similarly to the contemporary Hungarian János Térey’s play entitled Jeramiah. where underground will also be a metaphorical underworld which is populated with the ghosts of the famous deceased people of Debrecen, and finally, in Péter Kárpáti’s Everywoman the grave of the final scene of the medieval Everyman will be replaced with a contemporary underground station. I analyse how an underground station could be parallel with the underworld and I deal with the role of musicality and sounds in the literary works based on the myth of Orpheus.</p></abstract>

In my study I deal with descents to the underworld and hell in literature in the 20th century and in contemporary literature. I will focus on modem literary reinterpretations of the myth of Orpheus, starting with Rilke’s Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. In Seamus Heaney’s The Underground. in the Hungarian Istvan Baka’s Descending to the Underground of Moscow and in Czesław Miłosz’s Orpheus and Eurydice underworld appears as underground, similarly to the contemporary Hungarian János Térey’s play entitled Jeramiah. where underground will also be a metaphorical underworld which is populated with the ghosts of the famous deceased people of Debrecen, and finally, in Péter Kárpáti’s Everywoman the grave of the final scene of the medieval Everyman will be replaced with a contemporary underground station. I analyse how an underground station could be parallel with the underworld and I deal with the role of musicality and sounds in the literary works based on the myth of Orpheus.

Orpheus in the Underground

University of Szeged (Hungary) Department of Comparative Literature Studies

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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In my study I deal with descents to the underworld and hell in literature in the 20th century and in contemporary literature. I will focus on modem literary...

Orpheus in the Underground

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2015

Pages: 45 - 54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0034

Mots clés
descent, underworld, underground, Orpheus

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Orpheus in the Underground

Publié en ligne: 30 déc. 2015

Pages: 45 - 54

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2015-0034

Mots clésdescent, underworld, underground, Orpheus

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
descent, underworld, underground, Orpheus