Sharp, explosive sounds prised at and reverberated against the walls: the innocuous barking of a dog, but magnified to an intolerable pandemonium by the resonant stairwell, and in the turn of the stairs above Köves there now appeared a ruddy-cheeked face in a frame of snow-white hair. Köves’s fir...
Summer is here, but it’s been ages since, back in springtime, the grammar school let us out on holiday, adverting to the war that’s going on. Indeed, aircraft often come over to bomb the city, and since then they have brought in still newer laws about Jews. For the last two weeks I myself have be...
I suppose that must have happened in the barracks of the gendarmerie. Why was that episode left out of Fatelessness? From the novel’s perspective, it was a purely anecdotal element; that’s why it had to be left out. Yet from the perspective of your own life it must nevertheless have been a fairly...