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The Debrecen-born writer spoke with insight and knife-wielding honesty
Debrecen – The necessary excess is a voluminous and important work. This volume of interviews is a large-scale witness to the life and intellect of János Térey.
The third Térey Book Festival in our city starts with a wreath-laying and an intimate round table discussion. In addition to the life and work of the poet, writer and playwright, who was born in Debrecen and is considered one of the defining authors of Hungarian literature, the series of events also focuses on contemporary literature and reading.
On Saturday book presentation the venue will be the ground-floor lecturer of the Méliusz Library, where the public can familiarize themselves with the newly published volume Necessary Excess from 5 p.m.
The participants of the event are Bence Sárközy, director of Jelenkor Kiadó, Ferenc Darvasi, the volume’s editor, and Miklós Szénási, writer and journalist, editor-in-chief of Dehir.
“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’.
As Ferenc Darvasi wrote about the volume containing interviews with János Térey, “The Necessary Superfluity is his ‘autobiography’ in its unusual way.” Of the young man who
he was preparing to be an architect for a long time, 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 together quite naturally at a time when it was not 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.”