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"Why not start at zero? Everything that is is more
than nothing. Even an obituary can give life: it enriches our emotional
terrain, makes us grateful for one more day, helps us to see life as
something given to us. For we are worthless creatures and have nothing
whatever coming to us. The fact that we emerge from nothing and return
to nothing, the fact that we are alive is in itself a gift, a reciprocal
gift, a gift of mutual gain, because in life as in love, giving is receiving.
We cannot make a clear-cut distinction between ourselves and those near
to us. We establish a symbiotic relationship with our environment in
such a way as to merit at least a mental stroll through the realm of
the end-in-itself, and as we stroll, we indulge in the idea of having
a self-contained purpose. If dust we are and unto dust we shall return,
if such is our only trajectory, if we are made in God's image and thus
meant to be as perfect as our Heavenly Father, then let us be unique
and like unto Him who made us. Life is but a form that becomes visible
with the passing of time and the presence of someone desiring to behold
it. The challenge is to create a work of the limited time we are given."
(from: The Melancholy of Rebirth, tr. by M. H. Heim)
"In Konrád's later novels this storytelling attitude
becomes stronger and more personal, and with the help of an objective
tone and attitude he manages to reflect the evolution of modern leftist
spirituality in the region."
(Ernő Kulcsár-Szabó)
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