Balla D. Károly - Az last futamok

Continuation of the diary entries of the Berzsenyi, Quasimodo and József Attila prize-winning writer and poet living in Ungvár - between 1997-2003, published in 2007 - in which, due to his limited mobility, he was "roommate" the condemned mansard keeper records his thoughts about the Transcarpathian and Hungarian reality. It features political events with great emphasis: the so-called Ukrainian the Orange Revolution, the referendum on dual citizenship, the storms surrounding the Hungarian Writers' Association, the 2006 Hungarian elections, the Carpathian True Word. splitting a page in half, etc... However, the focus is not on the common man, but on the writer and the speaker acting as a writer, the material contains a lot of literary invention, each entry is short prose, almost novelistic in nature, the whole book is not a collection of simple descriptions of events, but a collection of notes, diary essays, professional explanations, and lyrical digressions. In the book, we can also observe a kind of closure, an anticipation of retreat from the thick of life.

Pro Pannonia Publishing Foundation
Fiction
176 pages
Binding: hardboard, thread bound
ISBN: 9789639893801
Author: Balla D. Károly