<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper analyses the spatial representations and the self- representajtions of the surrealist author Marcel Jean in his late autobiography entitled Au galop dans le vent, where he reflects upon his life and upon the seven years that he spent in Budapest with his wife between 1939 and 1945, and also in his book Mnésiques, published in 1942 in Budapest. In this latter book the presence of the surrealist mythology of transformation can be interpreted as a representation of the dislocated self, Au galop dans le vent showing the historical and biographical contexts of these experiences. </p></abstract>

The paper analyses the spatial representations and the self- representajtions of the surrealist author Marcel Jean in his late autobiography entitled Au galop dans le vent, where he reflects upon his life and upon the seven years that he spent in Budapest with his wife between 1939 and 1945, and also in his book Mnésiques, published in 1942 in Budapest. In this latter book the presence of the surrealist mythology of transformation can be interpreted as a representation of the dislocated self, Au galop dans le vent showing the historical and biographical contexts of these experiences.

Surrealist Senses: Marcel Jean’s Representations of Budapest

Babeş—Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Department of Hungarian Literary Studies

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The paper analyses the spatial representations and the self- representajtions of the surrealist author Marcel Jean in his late autobiography entitled Au galop...

Surrealist Senses: Marcel Jean’s Representations of Budapest

Publié en ligne: 30 mai 2014

Pages: 17 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2014-0002

Mots clés
Marcel Jean, Árpád Mezei, European School, surrealism, war

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Surrealist Senses: Marcel Jean’s Representations of Budapest

Publié en ligne: 30 mai 2014

Pages: 17 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2014-0002

Mots clésMarcel Jean, Árpád Mezei, European School, surrealism, war

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Mots clés
Marcel Jean, Árpád Mezei, European School, surrealism, war