Ervin Lázár is the creator of a genre we may safely call
Central European folk surrealism, which takes on the quality of a
hallucinatory exploration into that part of the soul where beauty, hope,
and yearning live in close proximity with the harsh realities of life.
Like many of Kertész’s works, The Pathseeker is not about the trauma of the Holocaust itself so much as the trauma of survival. The self may survive but the triumph of that survival is chimerical.
"What makes one a writer? Probably it is not being locked up, because then we would be chock full of writers, but undoubtedly, for someone who does not want to be a writer but ends up becoming one, like me, such an event can prove crucial."
"To your greetings the cleaning woman answers / By listing the TV program, as if you asked her. / The electric brain magnetizes madness / Like television screen attracts the grime – / To wipe it clean, a dust cloth won’t suffice."
One of the most famous love stories of Hungarian theatre, and a play about bohemian Budapest before World War I. - Purple Acacia and Bridegroom by Ernő Szép.
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Önállóságának huszadik évfordulóját ünnepli kedden és szerdán a
budapesti Írók Boltja. Az első nap, október 4-e a vásárlóké, október 5-én pedig
koncert és az Üveggolyó-rend tagjainak felolvasása várja az érdeklődőket. A Litera a helyszínről tudósít.