Kukorelly Endre - TündérVölgy - avagy Az human heart rejtelmeiről (4. expenditure)

Endre Kukorelly's book TündérVölgy is the writer's greatest undertaking. Not only in the sense that he wrote for nine years; a work of synthesis. The main virtues of Kukorelly's writing style are valid in it: linguistic precision and rigor, irony and gentle humor, the constant review of the functioning of memory, the lyrical tone, the oscillating movement of the narrator's self between past and present. The novel is thematically organized around the figure of the father, thereby encompassing the events of the past half century. Metaphorically speaking: the speaker is trying to understand the silence of the father, who traveled the Don bend as a Horthyst military officer, was wounded, and later, during the communist dictatorship, was forced to a ``second-class life'' as a bank clerk. The father, who tolerates the declassification of the family and his own situation with silent resignation, keeps silent about his past: the novel's melancholic investigation reconstructs the possible causes and events of this. Each chapter is a test of memory: an attempt to get access to life's most personal experiences without myths and objections."His amazing linguistic and text editing inventions operate with an awareness that is probably unparalleled in today's Hungarian literature. He does not simply remember, but invents his memories: he now creates memories. But of course the inventing maneuver is also a part of fiction: as the author asks the question with nice cheekiness: "Let me invent, but how do you invent anything?" - István Margócsy, 2000"Uncatchable liquidator-artist. He counted himself to the top, I guess." - Ákos Szilágyi, Élét és Irodalom"Romantic gesture: preserving love, unity, the whole in such a way that we actually destroy a concrete form of appearance, because we think: creation, poetic reality makes up for everything." - Péter Dérczy, Élet és Irodalom"As the book progresses, in a hushed voice, always stopping and stopping, pushing forward again, it digs its way forward in that dense, underwater jungle, which is indicated by a single small line of sounds, although perhaps more words are needed to it: recent past, long past, my past, past, good past, bad past, past, past me, stop." - László Garaczi, Népszabadság

Kalligram Publishing House
Novel
392 pages
Binding: tabbed, cardboard
ISBN: 9789634682820
Author: Endre Kukorelly
Year of publication: 1900