43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Starting page: 18
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Novák Ferenc writes about discussions around his dinner table with friends Csoóri Sándor Sr., Bodor Pál, Deák Tamás, Böjte József, Heleszta Sándor, Sütő András, Karikás Péter, Keserű Kati, Böszörményi Nagy György, Ablonczy László, Kallós Zoltán, Korniss Péter – back in the winter of 1985. People, nations, provincialism, cosmopolitanism, Hungary, and the overemphasizing, silencing, underrating and overrating of identity: were subjects of discussion – that often led to argument and anger….but, he reminds the reader later on, “our people, our culture could – and does have fantastic cementing force that keeps us together….” Originally published in Magyar  Nemzet April 27th, 1991/then in Novák Ferenc Tata: Tánc, élet, varázslat… Hagymányok Háza, Budapest, 2016. pp. 194-198