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György Dalos

Autore di 1985

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Fonte dell'immagine: Hungarian writer and historian György Dalos at the bookfair Leipzig on March 18, 2011 By Bambule-Webdesign.de: http://bambule-webdesign.de - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14643489

Opere di György Dalos

1985 (1983) 58 copie
The Circumcision (1990) 35 copie
Ungheria, 1956 (2006) 13 copie
Der Versteckspieler (1994) 5 copie

Opere correlate

Hongarije verhalen van deze tijd (1990) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Franz Fühmann (2014) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Ungarn und Europa. Positionen und Digressionen (2013) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Die vorliegende Witzesammlung erhebt keinerlei Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit oder auf wissenschaftlichen Charakter. Dieser bewußte Mangel läßt sich durch die Tatsache erklären, daß als einzige Quelle für die Zusammenstellung das Gedächtnis des Autors diente. Von frühester Kindheit an hörte und erzählte ich die Produkte des Volkshumors: in Kindergarten und Schule, im Krankenhaus und im Knast., auf langweiligen Parteiversammlungen und in Gottesdiensten, in der Eisenbahn, auf wissenschaftlichen Tagungen und selbst auf Beerdigungen. Witze begleiteten mein Leben in seinen glücklichen und auch in seinen weniger glücklichen Phasen. Manchmal dienten sie mir zur Unterhaltung, manchmal erleichterten sie mir das Verständnis irgendeines scheinbar komplizierten politischen Zusammenhangs. Jedenfalls schwirrten sie im Laufe einer ganzen historischen Ära in meinem Kopfe herum. Jetzt, wo diese Ära, die meine Kindheit, Jugend und den größten Teil meines Erwachsenenlebens in sich schließt, zu Ende geht, schütte ich mein diesbezügliches Wissen aus den Kammern meines Gedächtnisses. Das ist mein Abschied von einem langjährigen Dasein als Ostblockbürger. Meine Gefühle bei diesem feierlichen Akt sind gemischt: Freude und Trauer über Vergangenes ist drin, aber vielleicht auch Erleichterung über die Entlassung aus einer nicht besonders witzigen Variante der Weltgeschichte.
György Dalos, geboren 1943 in Ungarn, studierte von 1962 bis 1967 an der Moskauer Universität; 1968 wurde er in einem politischen Prozeß mit Haft und Arbeitsverbot bestraft.(amazon.de)
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Hoppetosse1 | Nov 6, 2023 |
This is very nearly a great book. It's a good book, and it comes right up to the brink of great, but alas falls short.

I'm not entirely sure that Nineteen Eighty-Four needed a sequel—I rather assumed that The Party went on forever and that the bleak authoritarian world presented by Orwell was self-sustaining—but Dalos' short novel does well enough to break out of that.

Where this story shines is in the footnotes, oddly enough. The only other book I can think of that did so good a job of making the footnotes an integral part of the reading experience is Asimov's 'Murder at the ABA'.

Let's be clear that Dalos does not write in Orwell's style, nor does he even bother trying to write in Orwell's style. It's part pastiche, part homage, and part "you know, maybe this situation is untenable". And in a state as completely controlled as Oceania is, in a way Big Brother cannot die. Dalos tackles that problem directly, and addresses what happens when a totalitarian state is incontrovertibly confronted with an external power that's greater than any it can muster. And it becomes partly like watching a train wreck, and partly like watching a disassembly—both from, fortunately, a safe distance.

Definitely recommended.
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trdsf | 3 altre recensioni | Jan 7, 2023 |
Ever wonder what happened after Winston Smith embraced his love of Big Brother? Well, I did, and one of the great "downer" books of all time has what amounts to a followup in Gyorgy Dalos' 1985.

Dalos subtitled this book What Happens After Big Brother Dies, and that pretty much describes this slim volume too, though it's not a narrative so much as it is a collection of "documents" written by the protagonists of the original story, predominately: Smith, his lover Julia Miller, and his torturer with the Thought Police, James O'Brien, though there are some descriptive elements from other voices for detail. It is assembled as a historical essay of sorts, and it is as exhaustively footnoted as such a piece should be.

Interestingly, and cunningly, the footnotes are where a good portion of the action actually takes place. Slowly we see the historian/author apparently going mad—or is he sane, and it's the system which is mad?—and ultimately finds himself in sort of the same predicament in which Smith is in at the conclusion. Not surprising, and not at all unsatisfying, though be aware that the pleasure you (and, indeed, I) might take at seeing the fall of Ingsoc isn't so much of a fall as it is a stumble into the waiting arms of Eurasia, which by all appearances is just as dark and sinister as was Oceania. Funny how that ends up, and funny too how our own world is so similar…Dalos in his own way is as prescient as was Orwell way back when.

I'm not quite sure exactly where I picked this piece up, though I want to say it was at the last of the fabulous Goodwill Book Sales they used to have at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. That would've been in 1991, I think, and yes, I kept this book all these years knowing I'd get around to reading it, figuring it looked too intriguing to be a dull read. Turns out I was right, and it seems others agree: thirty years after its publication you can still find copies of it. This is one that cries out to be transferred to e-reader format for a wider distribution. We can always learn from a work like this.

Not just a curiosity, 1985 is a genuine must-read for anyone who enjoyed the original work.
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Jamski | 3 altre recensioni | Jul 18, 2018 |
Interessantes Thema, angenehm zu lesen...

Gekonnt und angenehm zu lesen führt uns der der Autor in die Zeit des jungen ungarischen Sozialismus. Hierbei begleiten wir den jugendlichen Robert bei seinen Vorbereitungen auf das Abitur, seiner Arbeit im Kommunistischen Jugendverband und nicht zuletzt dabei, wie er seine erste große Liebe kennenlernt. Wir erfahren, dass es auch in jener Gesellschaft nicht gänzlich gleichgültig ist, ob man Jude ist, oder nicht. Die Gegenwartsdarstellung könnte etwas anregender erfolgen und Budapest erkennbarer huldigen. Alles in allem aber ein sehr gelungener und lesenswerter Roman.… (altro)
 
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