Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2000. [Vol. 6.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)
Book reviews - Judit Ágnes Kádár: Zoltán Abádi-Nagy: Világregény— Regényvilág: Amerikai íróinterjúk (The Novel of the World—The World of the Novel: Conversations with American Writers.)
JUDIT ÁGNES KÁDÁR ZOLTÁN ABÁDI-NAGY: VILÁGREGÉNY—REGÉNYVILÁG: AMERIKAI ÍR ÓINTERJÚK (The Novel of the World—The World of the Novel: Conversations with American Writers.) Debrecen: Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, 1997. 251 pp. Zoltán Abádi-Nagy's recent collection of interviews provides an invaluable insight into the world of contemporary American novelists. His earlier books incorporated comprehensive surveys of recent American prose writing: Válság és komikum: A hatvanas évek amerikai regénye (Crisis and Comedy: The American Novel of the Nineteen-Sixties, Magvető, 1982.), Az amerikai minimalista próza (American Minimalist Fiction, Argumentum, 1994.) and Mai amerikai regénykalauz 1970-1990 (Guide to Contemporary American Fiction between 1970-1990, Intera, 1995.). All these make attempt to provide an overview on the critical panorama of contemporary U.S. novel as well as detailed analyses of numerous literary voices, trends and critical perspectives. However, here, in The Novel of the World —The World of the Novel , Abádi-Nagy successfully tries his hands in a new job: that of the literary critic/journalist and becomes a mediator between the reader and the writer, disclosing for us the personal world of the latter. He takes advantage of his personal encounters with prominent characters in contemporary mainstream(?) fiction writing along with his own research experiences. His aim is to create six so called 'deep interviews', all but one is based on personal meetings with Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, E. L. Doctorow, Ronald Sukenick and Raymond Federman, while the one with Walker Percy is a result of extensive correspondence. 209
