ENGL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cycles Of The Kings, Appeasement, Austria-Hungary
31 May 2016
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Themes: friendship, time, old age, tact, hunting, end of empires, expiry. (cid:498)candles burnt til the end(cid:499) meaning of title in hungarian. After konrad arrives, a storm blows through and takes place in the dark. Reconciling the past ; ordering accounts ; closure p. 208 (candles) Candle analogy to konrad and henrik ; candles burnt down completely. Objects (cid:498)related(cid:499) to characters (hungarian german english) (lais) translation as a substitute for creation. Some authors abandon their mother tongue to write in a foreign language: 3rd = english: joseph conrad - born in poland. Konrad = reader, but we don(cid:495)t know what. Characters as translated : - moved in language. Henrik is the only one who is not displaced. Henrik as an emblem of the hungarian empire p. 175 krisztina(cid:495)s ethnicity. H adores his mother, but not his wife p. 43 ((cid:495)s background. Committed suicide (shot himself at 80 something) M rai always wrote in hungarian to keep in touch with homeland.
