EXAMPLES OF THE ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN WAVE IN HUNGARIAN LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

Abstract

As Éva Janikovszky is the main representative writer of the anti-authoritarian movement in Hungary, so is Éva Berniczky in the Transcarpathian Hungarian Literature, only in a slightly different way. In her surrealist style and world she created a new relationship of equality between adults and children, a world in which children not only can be, but are indeed right; the way to achieve this is through the unlimited phantasy of children, which only a few adults are able, wish and know how to follow. The works of Éva Berniczky give the impression of having learnt both from Éva Janikovszky and from Ervin Lázár. Her choice of topic and names of characters reflect surrealistic elements, just as one can also detect them in the characters of Ervin Lázár’s novels.