A kisebbségi léthelyzet nevekkel kódolt reflexiói Gion Nándor prózájában

Absztrakt

Reflections of a minority situation encoded in names within the prose of Nándor Gion  

In a registerlike fashion Nándor Gion has used several real and realistic Hungarian names in his works in order to aid readers in connecting to the Hungarian-related past of the southern area of the Carpathian Basin. However, naming practices in his novels published before the change of the political regime around 1990, are peculiar, as several names do not reveal anything about the ethnicity of the characters without a thorough analysis of the text itself, while this factor may be important in the multiethnic Voivodina region. Ethnic affiliation may be deduced by reading between the lines, as several invented personal names – similarly to the omission of certain place names – may allude to withheld information. Symbolic personal names (e.g. “disguised” Slavic names, Armenian family names, all the Lajoses [‘Louis’] and Jánoses [‘John’]) constitute a special type of Gion’s names, which reflect upon today’s minority situation in an indirect way.