The paper deals with two post-modernist novels by Péter Esterházy and Andrej Blatnik, respectively renowned and appreciated in Hungarian and Slovene literature. The paper places the novels in the context of postwar literary development. The two novels share many characteristics of postmodernism, starting with numerous quotations that acquire new, ironic meanings in different surroundings and ending with the narrator who simulates different types of narrator, the fundamental difference being that Esterházy's novel is an open-ended work, while Blatnik's novel is more classical in form.
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