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Imre Kertész was a man of great intellect, who could not be boxed in, and there was no doubt that his legacy should be established not in Berlin, but in Budapest, because this is his city.
– said the Prime Minister in an Art Nouveau villa at 46 Benczúr Street, renovated for 2 billion HUF, which houses the institute.
The prime minister cited various thoughts from the Nobel Prize-winning writer who died in 2016, such as calling anti-Semitism an infection, a pandemic, an ideological epidemic, “murderous entertainment for dirty souls” and, according to Kertész, “an animal species called a multicultural society. ”. Viktor Orbán added:
He was of the opinion that answers to the problems of European civilization should only be sought within the framework of civilization itself, solutions imported from abroad would not work, neither in terms of spirit nor of people.
In the writer’s words
the liberal spirit, which originally wanted the best, led the intelligentsia to nihilism, the masses to incompetence, with its postmodern unprincipled.
The Prime Minister recalled the indisputable debates in Hungary on the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which, according to him, boxes Imre Kertész
to an account he had never wanted, and there was no reason to be locked in there. Because his deep intellect cannot be confined
Viktor Orbán said. He recalled from his life trajectory that Imre Kertész had chosen the strategy of total exclusion in communism: he wanted to live cleanly, without compromising, because he thought that “one should not participate in this.”
Chose internal emigration in Budapest
– said the Prime Minister.
Regarding the handover, the Prime Minister emphasized that since 2010 more than four billion guilders have been made in development and investment in Budapest, resulting in an obvious difference between the capital of a decade ago and today.
In recent years and still today, Hungary is assuming cultural expenses because it is a “cultural nation”.
– highlighted, citing as an example the Liget Budapest project, the renovation of the Hungarian State Opera and the support of the film industry.
In addition to exploring the work of the eponymous writer, the Imre Kertész Institute also deals with the legacies of Arthur Koestler, György Petri and János Pilinszky, as well as the entire legacy of János Sziveri.
(Cover image: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will deliver a speech at the inauguration of the new headquarters of the Imre Kertész Institute on Benczúr Street, District VI, on October 10, 2020. Photo: Zoltán Máthé / MTI)
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