A city has as many faces as there are people in it, and everyone can read their own story , as in a good book. “After all, what you can tell the other about your own life cannot possibly trump the many similar events in the other person’s life, which will sound just as exceptional in the silence of attention; in fact, we tell a story because we are certain the other person has the same tale in them, dormant.”
The grandiose memoir of Péter Nádas, who is 80 this October, Világló részletek (Luminous Details) not only tells the story of his childhood and his family, but also remembers the most hectic decades of the 20th century and everyday life in Budapest. His stories are the common history of us all: on our walk we will unravel these connections by drawing on Nádas’s texts.

Meeting point: 1055 Budapest, Jászai Mari tér, at the statue of Imre Nagy

Walking tour in Hungarian