Demeter Zsuzsa - Bálint Tibor

Tibor Bálint (1932-2002), sensitive to the absurdity of the world, wrote human stories and changes in Cluj. Zsuzsa Demeter provides the reader with coherent interpretive writings, reviewing his impressive work and the reception of his works. The novel Sobbing Monkey was expanded into three parts, and even became the starting point for stage and film works. However, this book presents the variety of genres of Tibor Bálint's prose, the peculiarity of its tone, in addition to the better-known trilogy and other novels, short stories, essays, press notes, and the entire writer's legacy. This is how he constructs information-rich readings in a social-historical and critical-historical framework: registering his authorial beginnings, the evolution of his judgment, his cultural and literary preferences, and the components of his prose poetics. After analyzing István Sigmond's monograph on the prose and drama writer and Annamária Kinde's poetry, Zsuzsa Demeter's new book convinces again that reading is discovery.