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Summaryabout remembering; experiences in childhood and youth in Budapest; Jewish laws as grotesque situation; anecdotes from fascism; the morale of the persecutors and those persecuted; the liberation by the Red Army; the transformation from a liberating into a oppressive power; causes for the failure of the socialist-stalinist systems; in prison after the Hungarian Revolution after 1956; the comic sides of prison; about the clever mass murderer János Kádár; the teacher Georg Lukács and his autobiography; personal relations with the teacher; two examples of the depth of Lukács' thoughts; 1968: Lukásc during the invasion of the Warsaw Treaty troops in Prague; the playwright István Eörsi and his Lukács play "His Masters' Voice"; "The Interrogation" and other plays; the role of the intellectual; dramatic conflicts today; the hope of the tragedy "Oedipus"; Hungary today as a deeply divided country; friendship with the poet and rebel Allan Ginsberg; on contemporary Israeli politics and how he learned to criticize them from the late Ginsberg; notes on contemporary Hungarian literature; how the Hungarian samizdat came into being after 1968 as a result of the Prague Spring; the director and playwright George Tabori; the friendship with Danilo Kis and his great novel "The Sandglass";
Sectional views: Eörsis Hand
