HUNGARIAN STUDIES 11. No. 1. Nemzetközi Magyar ... - EPA
HUNGARIAN STUDIES 11. No. 1. Nemzetközi Magyar ... - EPA HUNGARIAN STUDIES 11. No. 1. Nemzetközi Magyar ... - EPA
142 LÁSZLÓ K. GÉFINVitéz had summarized his ethics in the exemplary Politikai vers [PoliticalPoem] in the line: "A tisztesség útjáról nem lehet letérni" [One cannot turn offthe road of virtue {honor, decency, righteousness}].With all the de/reconstrive play going on simultaneously, the narrative inthe Introitus remains on the whole ironic, mixed at times with pathos, relatinghow the speaker's entrance to the altar of God is blocked by the church'sinstitutional trappings; and the Kyrie, aside from an increase in parabases andprosopopeia, is taken up by a chorus of women and a fugue. In both parts thenarrator depicts himself as one caught in a painful predicament: in an allusionto Jesus's driving the money changers and traders from the temple, he pleads,"Ne zavarj el színed elől Uram, / nem vagyok galambok árusa; én repdesek akalickában" [10] [Do not drive me from thy sight o Lord, I'm no dealer inpigeons; it's me fluttering inside the cage]; and he validates his poeticundertaking by the admission, "dalolok mert sikoltanék különben" [15] [I singor else I'd scream].Irony is invaded by satire in the Gloria, the part on which most of myreading will focus. The first thirty or so lines run as follows:1 Gloria in excelsis DeoA sárkányt leszúrták a táboritákatkardélre hányták, a mórokkal, -(súgjál hamar mi történt a mórokkal Saragossában)5 mi történt a zsidókkal Yorkban, Frankfurtbanmáglyánpirított Szervél Mihállyal GenfbenLeydeni Jánossal Münsterben (és mit tett Leydeni JánosMünsterrel ugyancsak a Nagyúristen dicsőségére).Nincs olyan kitaposott hitványság, mészárlás, csirkefogás10 lelki heréltek, agyalágyak, vérszőlőtaposó lúdtalpasokdiszkrét belső Grand-Guignol színpada, a központi idegrendszerméregfacsarta antinómiás anatómiájaamit nem az Isten-Prokrusztesz dicsőségére szabna valaki.Alig volt olyan iszonyat, békalencsés, kidülledt szemű gyalázat15 embermészárló masina, kés, szurony, kukoricagránátgépágyú nehéztank zuhanóbombázóamit Űr szolgája meg nem áldott volna(In hoc signo vincesItt írd alá Vince!)20 (Ne grimaszolj angyali doktor úr szakmai apologéta!)Tíz éves voltam! a nagy kacsaúsztató előttfölállt a zászlóalj. Páncéljárművek, teherautók, motorbicikliknémet uraságoktól levetett fegyverek. Jött ám a páter(igazi csatapap suttogta anyám meghatottan25 golyózáporban adja föl az utolsó kenetet!)Meg is áldott minden löveget, golyószórót, közbakát, őrmestert
THE AGON OF IRONY AND SATIRE 143fekele csövek álián remegtek a szenteltvíz csöppjeilobogott a márjászászló (tudhattam volna hogy a Szűzanyakülönösen a magyar nehézpuskát kedveli, az isteni kisded pedig30 elsősorban a gránátrobbanásoknak örül).(Nincs is szebb ám a keresztény magyar katonai teológiánál.)[17-18][Gloria in excelsis deoThe dragon was slain, the Taboriteswere put to the sword, the Moors(help me quick what happened to the Moors at Saragosa)what happened to the Jews in York, Frankfurtto Michael Servetus roasted alive in Genevato John of Leyden in Münster (and what did John of Leyden dowith Münster likewise for the greater glory of God).There is no worn-out wickedness, massacre, trickeryno discreet inner Grand-Guignol stage of mental eunuchs, morons, flatfoots,no poison-squeezed antinómián anatomy of the central nervous systemthat somebody would not cut to the glory of God-Procrustes.There have hardly been horrors, bug-eyed degradationcontraptions for human slaughter, knives, bayonets, hand-grenadesmachine guns, heavy tanks, dive bombersthat would not receive the blessing of a servant of the Lord(In hoc signo vincesYou sign right here Vincent!)(Don't you make faces angehe doctor professional apologist!)I was ten years old! the batallion lined upbefore the big duck pond. Armored vehicles, trucks, motorcyclesweapons discarded by German overlords. Then came the padre(a real battle priest whispered my mother deeply movedhe gives the last rites in a hail of bullets!)Sure enough he blessed every cannon, machine gun, private, sergeanton chins of black gun barrels trembled drops of holy waterthe Flag of Mary blew in the wind. (I should have known that the Virgin Motherespecially favors Hungarian heavy guns, while the Holy Infantprimarily gets pleasure from the blast of grenades).(There is nothing finer than the Christian Hungarian military theology.)]Immediately juxtaposed to "Glory to God in the highest" comes thejumbled list of events (lines 2-8), the first component of the intertextualcluster, for which the quasi-dramatic frame is what looks like an imaginaryhistory class. Layered within the voice of the ill-prepared student who mixesmyth and fact (St. George's slaying of the dragon is the first thing that comesto his mind! George = György [Vitéz] "warrior/hero," would-be slayer of thedragons of imposture and sanctimony?), asking for help from an imaginaryclassmate, there is the questioning voice that distills the essence from all theatrocities committed by both Catholics and Protestants. (The bad student may
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THE AGON OF IRONY AND SATIRE 143fekele csövek álián remegtek a szenteltvíz csöppjeilobogott a márjászászló (tudhattam volna hogy a Szűzanyakülönösen a magyar nehézpuskát kedveli, az isteni kisded pedig30 elsősorban a gránátrobbanásoknak örül).(Nincs is szebb ám a keresztény magyar katonai teológiánál.)[17-18][Gloria in excelsis deoThe dragon was slain, the Taboriteswere put to the sword, the Moors(help me quick what happened to the Moors at Saragosa)what happened to the Jews in York, Frankfurtto Michael Servetus roasted alive in Genevato John of Leyden in Münster (and what did John of Leyden dowith Münster likewise for the greater glory of God).There is no worn-out wickedness, massacre, trickeryno discreet inner Grand-Guignol stage of mental eunuchs, morons, flatfoots,no poison-squeezed antinómián anatomy of the central nervous systemthat somebody would not cut to the glory of God-Procrustes.There have hardly been horrors, bug-eyed degradationcontraptions for human slaughter, knives, bayonets, hand-grenadesmachine guns, heavy tanks, dive bombersthat would not receive the blessing of a servant of the Lord(In hoc signo vincesYou sign right here Vincent!)(Don't you make faces angehe doctor professional apologist!)I was ten years old! the batallion lined upbefore the big duck pond. Armored vehicles, trucks, motorcyclesweapons discarded by German overlords. Then came the padre(a real battle priest whispered my mother deeply movedhe gives the last rites in a hail of bullets!)Sure enough he blessed every cannon, machine gun, private, sergeanton chins of black gun barrels trembled drops of holy waterthe Flag of Mary blew in the wind. (I should have known that the Virgin Motherespecially favors Hungarian heavy guns, while the Holy Infantprimarily gets pleasure from the blast of grenades).(There is nothing finer than the Christian Hungarian military theology.)]Immediately juxtaposed to "Glory to God in the highest" comes thejumbled list of events (lines 2-8), the first component of the intertextualcluster, for which the quasi-dramatic frame is what looks like an imaginaryhistory class. Layered within the voice of the ill-prepared student who mixesmyth and fact (St. George's slaying of the dragon is the first thing that comesto his mind! George = György [Vitéz] "warrior/hero," would-be slayer of thedragons of imposture and sanctimony?), asking for help from an imaginaryclassmate, there is the questioning voice that distills the essence from all theatrocities committed by both Catholics and Protestants. (The bad student may
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