Arc és hátraarc

A lemur searches among his memories, face to the past, and marches back, about-face to the future, to his time as a conscript: the place and time where, as the saying goes, a boy becomes a man. In the barracks of the Hungarian People's Army in Kalocsa he is both a lonely and a social creature, and from now on his name is Csont. He observes himself and the shared drudgery, the male-smelling routine of the barracks, the pranks and the humiliations, with a lemur's strangeness. It is no place for a lemur, and if he keeps up his old mania of conscientiously making a dictionary of the world, he may yet find the concepts that save him. The book witnesses the narrator's coming of age, an initiation both bitter and refreshing.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

172 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

Series

Egy lemur vallomásai, book 3 · book 5: Hasítás

First published

2010 by Magvető

Author's age

54 when first published