History approach in Ottlik’s School at the Frontier

Abstract

School at the Frontier offers to the reader several possible interpretations. The history approach is formed by the text and the suppress together. The siege of Kőszeg and the monologue of Bébé on the ship which goes to Mohács creates a model: model of the resistant, of the persistent and of the survivor. This idea is developed by two historical suppress, the revolution of 1956 and the peace of Trianon. But the survivorship can’t be a model.
The defeat as it appears in the fortune of the three main personages leads them to a moral catastrophe. One of the most important readings of the boys is Pascal. According to the mockeries Medve is a Jansenist. We know that the world of Pascal is the misery of man without God.