"In Ottó Fenyvesi's new poems we see the world as an electronic village. In villages, everyone knows everything about everyone else. No, not Big Brother. That's the ethic of Ottó Fenyvesi, brought from his homeland: he talks about a young man from Seremie who has never been to Hungary; then another unheroic hero, who lives on the banks of the Ferenc József canal that connects the Danube and the Tisza and from whom the Danube stretches further and further away, like a God. It is from such abandoned landscapes and souls that the homeland, and ultimately the globe is made up and we can hardly look at them without compassion, based on the information we have received from or about them. And whose memories are slowly becoming full. From Veszprém we can still see Vojvodina, but the fates of those across the ocean are also not far away in the age of Skype..."
(Németh István Péter)
Castle Street Workshop Books 24 - Veszprém
The book is sponsored by the National Cultural Fund