Katalin Mezey's young adult novel "Lyukak az oatstkönbjen" has been republished, the volume was published by Magyar Napló Kiadó in the series of works of the Kossuth Prize-winning prose writer, poet, and literary translator.

As Katalin Mezey told MTI, the youth novel, originally published in 1986, is a story between eighth-grade girls that shows the personality development process of its protagonists. "How a teenage girl comes to terms with it and realizes the responsibility that comes with friendship, or even the simplest conflict situation", this is what the story is about, he added.

Readers see the story through the eyes of the protagonist, Erzsi, who grew up in a bourgeois family and is a good student, in which the student should find a solution to an extraordinary situation that pits her against her friends and the school's order. With this, he almost takes the first step of becoming an adult. His girlfriend, who is his mother's helper, who has to participate in the work that ensures the family's livelihood, does not really respect the rules at school and scratches her and her girlfriend's bad grades out of the class book, which is where the complications begin.

The conflict in the novel is a real conflict, even if it does not take place in the present, but in the 1950s. Many tensions and contradictions appear in it, because according to the perception at the time, even children were expected to take a political stand, the writer emphasized.

"By making friends with a bad student as a good student, Erzsi overcomes the school's rigid way of thinking, which was even more intense in the 1950s," Katalin Mezey pointed out, emphasizing: at that time, the political influence, suspicion, the simplistic, harsh view of the adult world in education was also present, but the upturned reality of the 1950s, which wanted to rewrite society and its value system, can also be traced in the protagonist's family.

Magyar Napló Kiadó launched the publication of Katalin Mezey's biography series in 2014. In the series, the novel "Levelek haza" and az Előfilm, his poems written between 1960 and 2015 under the title "Recommended songs", as well as his volume of short prose and short stories entitled "I know you" were also published. In 2019, his collection of short stories entitled Régi napok rendje, followed by the book Short a carnival, containing his diary entries and short prose, was published. According to plans, Kivala Palkó's fairy tale Nemlehet-országkan, with illustrations by Berki Viola, will be published in 2022 in the Ünnepi Könyvetere.

MTI

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