Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. [Vol. 3.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 23)

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ATTILA KŐSZEGHY "NEW-DIRTY-POSTLITERATE-POP-LO-CAL-K-MART" On American Minimalist Fiction in the 1970s and 1980s (Abádi Nagy Zoltán: Az amerikai minimalista próza, Budapest: Argumentum Kiadó, 1994.) Abádi Nagy's book is clearly structured into two equally important parts. The author gathers his critical observations on his primary material in the first one, "American Minimalist Fiction: Authors and Works." While the second part which balances the first and contains the author's theoretical considerations about American Minimalism is titled "American Minimalist Fiction: the Minimalist World View and the Characteristics of Minimalist Aesthetics and Philosophy." Balance is obtained by the author, who uses his primary material in the first section of his book to draw conclusions in the second. Consequently it is the second half of the book which contains the bulk of the author's theoretical considerations. However, for the vast majority of Hungarian readers, the second, theoretical part could hardly be understood without the first one. For example, none of the ten novels that Abádi Nagy introduces here have been translated into Hungarian. Therefore the first part is essential to the understanding of the second. Had the book been published in English for the American public, it would very likely have had a different structure altogether. 183