Krisztina Jéga-Szabó: Two Parallel Stories. The novels of Renée Erdős and Anna Lesznai
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2025, WOMANPRESS. Conversation partner: Eszter Erdélyi, teacher
Krisztina Jéga-Szabó, who started his teaching profession in Szeged, now lives and teaches in Budapest, presents important aspects of the exciting work of two important writers starting at the beginning of the last century.
The works of Renée Erdős and Anna Lesznai are not only great examples of the search for a new female identity, but also of the renewal of prose poetics. The volume shows how they transformed the genre of the novel to express their own life experience and Jewishness, thus focusing on the focus of the female eye. Both of their works bear the impression of female socialization and emancipation: Erdős shows the way out of the rural orthodox environment, and uses his polyphonic novels to describe the criticism of women's role opportunities at the time. The main theme of Lesnai is the history of the development of the female artist: the garden was in the beginning, in his literary canon, in which the narrative of the family novel is expanded into a historical story of women. Krisztina Jéga-Szabó's volume thus offers not only two writers' careers and analyses of their works, but also highlights that their works offer the reader the impressions of the social changes of an era and the interpretation of women's history of the modern age.
Kriszta's book is also pleased because he worked for us in the first (hero) age of Grand Café (as a magyartartár) in his spare time behind the counter. Sometimes he sat at the table across the street, helping some of his students to graduate.