Melancholy and Cloister Novel. Ont The Works of Sándor Báróczi și József Naláczi

Abstract

MELANCHOLY AND CLOISTER NOVEL. ON THE WORKS OF SÁNDOR BÁRÓCZI ȘI JÓZSEF NALÁCZI

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In this study I have tried a new approach to Báróczi’s short story entitled Két Szerentsétlenek (Two Misfortunates) and also to the prose versions of Eufémia and G. Comens from the translations by Naláczi József. The analysis is based on researching the methods of portraying love. In the genre of cloister novel the sad love story always ends in a monastery and mostly with the death of the main character. This paper examines the ways of how the phenomenon of so-called romantic melancholy of that time appears in the writings. Following the mentality of those times, love and its physical approach, eroticism, they are always connected to melancholy. This state of mind is caused exclusively by love grief, and in this way the topos of love, passion and suffering are once again reconnected. Keywords: cloister novel, melancholy, József Naláczi, Baculard d’Arnaud, humoral pathology, death wish, erotica.