The subtle, personal nuances of resignation and sacrifice, losses and compromises and the richness of anecdotal facts suggest a micro-history perspective that, in contrast to grand narratives, grand politics and macroeconomics, reinterprets grand ideo-historical processes and the problem of identity through the specific ideas and life circumstances of the individual.
"The processing of the past has been going on at full speed in Hungary since the last regime change, yet there are surprisingly few meta-level (theoretical) reflections on art like the exhibition by Katharina Roters and József Szolnoki, which not only aims to shed light on the darker aspects of a family's past, but also critically reflects on the process of remembering and creating the past itself..." excerpt from Sándor Hornyik
The career of Carlo Ginzburg's concept of microstoria can also be linked to the strengthening of scepticism about grand narratives. His book, Cheese and Worms - A 16th Century Miller's View of the World, which has become a cult classic tells the story of the Counter-Reformation era and its grand narratives and what the average person understood from them through the reconstruction of the perspective and viewpoint of a 'little man', a miller. (1976) Europa, Budapest, 2011.