Péter Esterházy was a novelist. His family chronicles are already the shape of a memorial story: a great name, a private record, and the history of Hungary written as kin. He died in 2016. The books are the page.
Fotografie
Vadaro · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fotografie
Péter Esterházy · Public domain
Fotografie
Vadaro · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gând
A sample thought. The family would write here what they still say at the table.
Elena
Gând
A sample thought. A friend would say how the ordinary days were the ones that stayed.
Thomas
Poveste
What I was told
This is a sample story. A grandchild would write what they were told, and the one afternoon they remember for themselves.
Sofia
Lumânare
For the songs, and for Sunday.
Paul
Lumânare
A sample candle, lit for one day.
Mira
Videoclipuri
A recording the family kept
A sample film for Péter Esterházy. The family would put here a song or a piece of footage they still play.
Muzică
Music for a quiet afternoon
The family
Dar
Lumânare
A sample gift of light.
Helen
Dar
Carte
A sample card for Péter Esterházy.
Mark
Dar
Floare
A sample flower, left on the page.
Iris
Cronologie
Born
Péter Esterházy was born in 1950.
Cronologie
A novelist’s first books
By the end of the 1970s he had begun the books that made him a central Hungarian novelist.
Cronologie
Died
He died in 2016.
Întâlnire
A reading at home
A sample gathering for Péter Esterházy. The family would write the time, the place, and who is welcome.
The family
1950
1979
2016