János Pilinszky

An interview with the Hungarian poet, János Pilinszky.

János Pilinszky explains his thoughts on the mechanism of thinking, seemingly banal things, faith, Simone Weil, and the scandal of the twentieth century.

Cette vision romantico-fantastique d'apres le roman en vers de Sandor Weores relie l'histoire imaginaire d'une femme éclairée a la fin du XVIIIe siècle et celle d'un poete savant écrivain ayant réellement vécu au XIXe siècle qui, possèdes par un amour passionne, traversent deux siècles sans vieillir.

Whispered to by an ancient tree, a young shepherd dreams of more than his simple existence among grass and sheep. The journey he embarks on brings him into contact with golden birds, a dragon and a fair damsel.

Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of big-gesture theater. Her beauty and popularity is fading, and a new school of acting which involves the use of one's own emotions (a-la Eleanora Duse) is emerging in the person of her younger Viennese rival. She thinks of retiring from the stage, and reunites briefly with her estranged husband in a newly-built manor in the country. Finding that life there is boring, she returns to town, the theater, and her old friends.