ritic Tanacs Ferenc has described “Hajónapló” [Logbook] (1987), a short story written by Ottlik Géza, as “a Borgesian exercise in transfictionalizing certain obsessive paradoxes of national identity, authorship, writing and language” (168). Certainly, Ottlik seems to have faithfully adopted the skewed world vision, the penchant for linguistic invention and a mode of tongue-in-cheek historical (...
