Reliving the past that is the most fantastic adventure of all. The event, relived, grows more and more enigmatic, and richer and richer in meaning. Turning to the past, I reach the future, I recall people I never knew.
From a review by David Marcus of the new book, A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life by George Konrad.
At the end of the memoir, Konrád asks, “Where is home?” we know the answer. Memory is home.
"A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life" (George Konrad)