István Örkény: la brevedad y el absurdo

Abstract

 This article offers a reading of the narrative corpus produced by Hungarian writer István Örkény, in particular, the flash-fiction or microfiction collections published during the sixties as well as in posthumous editions. Örkény’s works are analysed here from the perspective of the conventions of Fantastic Realism and an emphasis is made on the way in which the absurd and the grotesque develop a complicity with the afore mentioned aesthetics in order to facilitate a critique, among others, of the prevailing political system of the time, which was strongly characterized by intolerance and censorship.