Nádas Péter - Világló részletek I-II.

"Once, on a several-day trip to Pilis, when there was no end or length to the road anywhere, we just went and went somewhere between Dömörkapu and Pilisszentkereszt in the forests, it was impossible to comprehend with reason why we were going, where we were descending, where we were holding on to in these mountains, and why don't they take you, because they are so quiet that we children are not even allowed to shout, and when we get to a clearing or a field, you can let out your voice there, because it is a common custom that people do not shout in the forest, do not disturb the birds and wild animals , and already quite a long way from the shelter, where we spent the night in a big, ice-cold dormitory with the whole group, adults and children, amid loud noises, they also taught me that I am never cold, never hot, never thirsty, never hungry , I'm never tired, I'm never sleepy, and especially I'm not bored, I'll make a good note of that now.
And I noticed it right away."

"In the end, instead of chronicles, people create legends for themselves when they tell their life stories to others," the author wrote in Parallel Stories. In his own memoir, which the Reader holds in his hands, he accordingly avoids this legend production with a unique method. Starting from his imprinted memory images - the "luminous details" - he first recalls the components of the original experience, the sounds, sights, smells, sensations and emotions, using the method of dream interpretation, and then reconstructs what happened, where and when based on these. He breaks down the stories he hears from others into their elements in order to filter out conscious or unconscious distortions from them, and then reconstructs what happened, where and when based on the cleaned life material and the revealed distortions. From there, it continues in concentric circles towards the causes, circumstances, motives, antecedents and consequences, until finally the meaning and significance of what happened emerges in one's own personal life and in the shared human world, which is inseparable from it.
As a result of this method, vivid descriptions, more exciting stories than exciting, and investigations revealing hidden connections follow one another on the pages of this extraordinary, unusual memoir.