On December 4, at 6 p.m., the latest book by Géza Oberczián will be presented at the Ferenc Kölcsey City Library in Dunakeszi. The writer was born in Budapest in 1961. He lives with his family in Dunakeszin. He was trained as a forester, but finally obtained his diploma at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Gödöllő. He worked as a scientific researcher, was a Danish scholarship holder, tried his hand at an advertising agency, and finally found the world of corporate consulting. He is currently the project manager of the Petőfi Cultural Agency.
He started writing relatively late, before that he wrote “applied literature” and formulated situations in dramatized training exercises. It was then that he realized how much experience he had accumulated over the years, which slowly formed stories.
Since 2013, he has published short prose in well-known magazines, Magyar Naplo, Napút, Székelyföld, Palócföld, Liget, Pannon Tükör, Elörtolt Helyőrség and others. His first volume, the Nógrádgárdonyi diary, was published at the end of 2016, and the short novel Áramlás in 2018. The third volume, entitled “back room”, containing selected short stories, was published in the spring of 2020. All three books were published by Magyar Napló Kiadó. The fourth novel, The Envoys, was published in 2021, published by the Aegis Culture Association.
So what’s the time? If no one asks, I know; if/they ask me and I want to explain, no I know. (Saint Augustine of Hippo)
Géza Oberczián’s new series of short stories tackles this dilemma, which has existed since ancient times and is also cited in the book. Even the finest minds of natural science and the spirit have already tried to answer who is physics and who is approached from the perspective of philosophy. He weaves the stories of the writer’s book around their theories, drawing possible parallels between disciplines.
Térvída’s loosely connected, yet connected short stories depict all three dimensions of time, displaying the archetypes of existence in time: who gets lost in the past, who gets lost in the present, who builds their future.
It is an exciting writer’s solution that all three stories displaying different time dimensions (Singularity, Event Horizon, Entropy) all take place in the present time.
Why is anyone stuck in the past? How can you move on, live the reality of the present, of everyday life? When, what makes the future visible? The heroes of the texts with a tight rhythm and driving momentum exemplify several answers to the questions, while despite their often extreme and polarized situations, they are not special figures: modern, average, whose fate is also a game of time.
