Demeter Szilárd - Hármasoltár

I was born in Szentegyháza in 1976. More specifically, in Székelyudvarhely, because the maternity hospital in Szentegyháza had already been liquidated, so the "big city" twenty kilometers away I was born in his hospital, they took me home from there. Fourteen years of incredibly meaningful childhood was part of my class at the foot of the Madarasi-Hargita. The communist dictatorship somehow got Gellert in Székelyföld, it was such an external thing, it forced us, it was alien to us, it was not our life. Of course. I realized what our life could be like in the first five years after the regime change, also in Székelyudvarhely - as one of the twenty boys among the six hundred female students of the Benedek Elek Tanítókzépz, khm, I mean became a man. I was born a second time, you could say, but your jaws opened, Mama from the colony would have squealed if it was worth it - she was my first death. Then came Cluj, where as a university student I learned about the peculiar European way of life, the monolingual multiculturalism, which I have not been able to come to terms with ever since. The following years are calculated in a different way: if you pay taxes, time passes differently. For the time being, over half of the journey of human life, or whatever it is, about a quarter of the journey of human life, I will say what can be said. This book is based on the experiences of the first two decades of my life. It is not an inventory, nor is it an accounting. Just a half-turn back, like when you look over your shoulder out of the corner of your eye to see if there is human movement behind you. If there is, then you can move forward. You're not alone.

Advance Garrison Writing Academy
Fiction
468 pages
Binding: hardboard, with protective cover
ISBN: 9786155814129
Author: Demeter Szilárd