{"id":160,"date":"2007-12-18T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=160&amp;language=en"},"modified":"2007-12-18T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T09:24:28","slug":"im-working-on-battling-with-the-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m working on, battling with the sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Erzs\u00e9bet Esz\u00e9ki interviewed me for <a HREF=\"http:\/\/kultura.hu\/main.php?folderID=1094&amp;articleID=264802&amp;ctag=articlelist&amp;iid=1\">Culture.hu<\/a> Here is an excerpt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Your novel set in Romania reveals a terribly tough world. Not a very happy childhood. But from the perspective of a child, &#8220;from down under,&#8221; brutality and dictatorship can be very well presented. Is this why you opted for a child protagonist? Or was it because of the mode of storytelling, because the story sounds more dramatic this way?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These considerations probably all contributed to it, but it was not such a conscious or premeditated decision. All of a sudden I heard the voice of Djata (the narrator of the novel) describing the brutal football training in the Wold&#8217;s End chapter and this voice was so powerful and intensive that perhaps I could not have suppressed it even if I had wanted to. More than hearing his voice, I somehow saw through his eyes and I could describe this semi-fictional world as an eleven-year-old saw it or would have seen it. Many people refuse to believe that the book bears only a trace of autobiography.(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><em>For the long version, with photos go to<\/em><strong>\u00a0<a HREF=\"http:\/\/kultura.hu\/main.php?folderID=1094&amp;articleID=264802&amp;ctag=articlelist&amp;iid=1\">culture.hu<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erzs\u00e9bet Esz\u00e9ki interviewed me for Culture.hu Here is an excerpt. Your novel set in Romania reveals a terribly tough world. Not a very happy childhood. But from the perspective of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interjuk","category-interviews","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}