Summary
Tibor Varady: On the Trail of Reserve History
Documentary prose (almost prose)
"On the Trail of Reserve History is Tibor Varady's fifth book whose origins lie in the archives of the family law office, where the past pulsates for more than a century, where entire epochs are conserved, where facts are preserved without which we would not understand the context of everyday life of ordinary people in the shadow of great historical events.
But, unlike the previous books in which the excellent jurist Varadi allowed the writer in him to wander just a little in thinking about the fate of the people who live in the archives of the family office, to come up with what is missing in the court files, Trace of the reserve history is a literary work par excellence. The writer Varadi is the one who determines the intonation, but also the entire dramaturgy of this novel, unparalleled in contemporary Serbian of literature. Pravnik Varadi is only a seeker in the service of creating a Proustian saga of reviving the past.
Trail of reserve history ends with a powerful parade of historical figures who determined the fate of millions of people in the twentieth century, but also of those anonymous characters who exist only in court archives and family histories. Dragan Velikić
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