Szabó Ádám - A lyoni bőrönd

The suitcase from Lyon is the novel of a forty-year-old man who moves to the French city because he got a job at the university, but also because his personal life has reached a crisis.

He goes to work in Lyon and actually teaches at the university, but in the meantime he lives his inner life with a greater intensity than his work on the top floor of a thirteen-story building, between heaven and earth, and he relives all this over and over again in his voluntary, though not entirely willing, solitude , which happened to him back home in the past, but in the meantime, almost against his will, he also begins to live a new life.
The suitcase from Lyon is Lyon's novel, which we get to know through the eyes of a forty-year-old man. This novel is a travel book, a personal travel guide about a city that reveals itself to us both in its objective reality and in the mythical cloak covered by the subjective gaze. Lyon's novel is like Paris's The Paris Rain or Italy's The Traveler and the Moonlight. A novel about a city that is both exile and refuge for those who lived there for four years.

The suitcase in Lyon is a novel about a suitcase that stands in a forty-year-old man's apartment in Lyon, up on the thirteenth floor, between heaven and earth, in one corner, and from which a whole old life emerges together with different figures, and then gives way to something else, which the forty-year-old man can take home with him at the end of four years.

ÁDÁM SZABÓ was born in 1969 and lives in Budapest. Hungarian teacher at ELTE Trefort Ágoston Gyakorló High School. Between 1997-2001 he lived in Lyon and taught Hungarian language and culture at Jean Moulin University. He writes prose and poems. His books: Mountain tales (narratives), Korona Kiadó, 2007; Álomkórász's eighth journey (novel), L'Harmattan, 2014; Celtic waltz (narratives), L'Harmattan, 2016; Some people are talking (two short stories), L'Harmattan, 2020.