November 12th, 2014

Talk of dictatorship “empty, ideological”, says Kertész

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To call Hungary a dictatorship today is “empty ideological language”, Nobel-prize laureate Imre Kertesz has said.

In an interview to The Hungarian Quarterly published in April 2014 — a translation of which has recently appeared in the Hungarian press — the Hungarian author said that a journalist from the New York Times (NYT) had come to him last year “with the intention of getting me to say that Hungary is a dictatorship today which it isn’t”.

“That only means that he has no idea what a dictatorship is. If you can write, speak openly, openly disagree, even leave the country, it is absurd to speak of a dictatorship,” Kertesz said in the Quarterly’s interview.

“I am not pleased with everything happening in Hungary. I do not think there was ever a time when I was pleased with everything happening here but certainly Hungary is no dictatorship. This is empty ideological language to call Hungary a dictatorship today. And the interview was never published, which a friend of mine very accurately said is a kind of censorship.”

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  • wolfi

    And now we wait for leto’s applause – but wait, the abominable creature wrote here:
    “No, Imre Kertész, the mediocre Jewish writer is being treated in a
    Budapest hospital. You should sometimes read the article you allegedly
    comment on, you extremely disgusting Jewish piece of shit.”
    Ain’t that sweet?

    And:
    “BTW, you extremely disgusting Jewish piece of shit, this mediocre writer called Imre Kertész is a plagiarist, too. :D”

  • Hungarian

    We don’t need this piece of traitor shit’s endorsement and pointing out the obvious.
    Why bother publishing this crap?
    Everyone knows that Hungary is not a dictatorship!

  • National Hiphop

    Well, there are different sorts of dictatorships… Think of Hungary in the 1980s and North Korea ever since 1950.
    And from now on I refuse to comment on anything what certain Nazi gobshites vomit out here.

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