Tersánszky Józsi Jenő - Delírium

Józsi Józsi Jenő Tersánszky regularly sweeps you with the flow of his narratives, through and through this already gone, yet familiar world; pubs, coffee houses, gangs, in the milieu of night and dawn Budapest, other times villages and small towns. His figures huddle beside us as we rush through hideouts, knife throwers, Czechs, half-lit streets, hospitals, offices, guard rooms, but also on the front of the First World War, and then during the emergency period, during the siege of Budapest. And in the meantime, the smaller and larger episodes of human lives pass by, like alcohol poured into a glass, water splashed onto cobblestones, or blood seeping out. Delirious self-absorption and cat-like dullness alternate before our eyes in such a way that we almost stagger, as if we were to leave a small pub in Buda at dawn. So let us hold on to the sure sense of proportion of our author, an expert connoisseur of this world, with an adventurous life, with which he relentlessly, yet not cruelly, observes his frail and mortal, poor and rich, unlucky and lucky characters. In a word, us, people.

Ádám Gábor Nyerges