Feminist-Queer Narratology and Imre Kertész’s Novel, Kaddish an Unborn Child

Abstract

The study wishes to illustrate that feminist-queer reading can open up new perspectives in analyzing (classical) Hungarian literature. The first part summarizes the most important recent tendencies, conceps and approaches in feminist-queer narratology. In the second section I will focus on the concepts of queer time and queer negativity. In the third part, I will adopt the conceps of queer time and queer negativity in my  analysis of Imre Kertész’s novel Kaddish for an Unborn Child. Finally, the study makes a contribution to the discussions on the intertextuality of the Kertész novel by drawing parallels between the novel and the play The Tragedy of Man by Imre Madách with regard to the question of fatherhood.