Janikovszky Éva - Velem mindig történik valami

"When my father says come here, my son, I want to talk to you, then there must be something wrong. Because if there is nothing wrong, he doesn't say he wants to talk to me, he talks right away."

The tale dissecting the child-adult relationship is essentially a monologue, a loose string of magnificent episodes in which a little boy holds up a mirror to the adults around him. Aware of his vulnerable position, but with a child's clarity and sense of justice, he lists all the oddities, minor and major misunderstandings, the causes of children's grief, which in his family - like other families - he has plenty of ways to notice. Parents often choose the more convenient route; they "raise" their children by relying on clichés - "Gereksáj" gives snappy answers to these stereotypes for the great entertainment of "contemporary" readers.