Térey János - Szükséges fölösleg

"I just get bored in an interview situation," wrote János Térey in a private letter in 2016. After a while, he became bored with interviewing (especially the e-mail interview genre, which he rightly believed to be an excellent field for the intellectual exploitation of writers), yet he did not give in to its demanding nature. With the same insight and knife-wielding honesty, avoiding clichés, he also wrote about his tenth, twentieth, and century. And even in the last fragment of the interview, he indulged himself in such a great paraphrase as "writing is the continuation of the children's room with other means".

Necessary redundancy is his "autobiography" in its unusual way. It belongs to the young man who spent a long time preparing to become an architect, but already at the age of seven he was fiddling with a novel plan. Arriving in Pest, following his esteemed literary predecessors, he threw himself into coffee houses, from where he eventually moved to restaurants. On whose intellectual horizon, Ady and Kosztolányi fit side by side with complete naturalness at a time when that was not yet customary. Who, when he was young, considered literature such as the ear text to be the most unnecessary and boring thing in the world...
This volume of interviews is a large-scale witness to his unsettling life journey and his fulfilling intellect. How a poet matures - because he was primarily a poet - from an irregular talent to one of the greatest.
Ferenc Darvasi

"I used to say that poetry is a necessary surplus: that certain cultural treasure without which most of the billions of people live happily. However, those few who keep the poem in front of their eyes are just as happy with it as any other card or with his passion for football, even to this day. The novel is a strong statement about the world, says Spiro. And the poem primarily gives a strong emotional-sensual impression. A message which - paradoxically - has the greatest effect with his music. It is specially polished and shaped, condensed and condensed, evidence-like literature. A reference, i.e. a mirrored piece of reality to which a person gives a form. The way the author creates this form - for example, with what he decorates it with and what he leaves out of it - as it contains his individuality and the spoken language, that makes a poem a poem or a novel is a novel."