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Metafizikai elemek Krasznahorkai László prózájában

Absztrakt

The characters in Krasznahorkai’s writings often feel as if a “blind force” is pushing them forward and setting them on a course of action, or rather, drift.They cannot be aware of what kind of force it is, nor of what that “dissolving light” might consist of.The main motif in each case is the compulsion of unknown purpose and origin, the interdependence, whether it is the murderer and his victim, or the criminal and the executioner. The intention of this essay is to follow the variations of this question from the beginning of the writer’s career to the Stockholm lecture. Krasznahorkai’s metaphysics is based on the assumption that Evil cannot be opposed to Good, but only to the complete absence of Evil (for example, Bach's music, which is not the same as Good in the moral sense).But this absence cannot hinder Evil, since they do not move on the same plane of existence. The allegorical story of the clochard in the Stockholm speech is that “the Good will never be caught by the flailing Evil, because there is no hope, none whatsoever, between Good and Evil”. However, this means rather that Krasznahorkai is constantly searching for a place of hope in a world approaching apocalyptic darkness.