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Dániel Horváth is a high school teacher in Nyergesújfalu, he organized literary discussions for his students during the Covid closure, and he edited an interview book from the conversations made by 2024. Bálint Csabay-Tóth also asks the author about the role of living literature in public education, how organizing work and asking questions, the gratitude, interest or indifference of the high school audience.

Dániel Horváth: What is amber? (Savaria University Press, 2024)

This is an interview book in which a reporter does not ask questions, but a teacher, mostly in front of an audience of adolescents. Most of the interviewees are writers, poets, but some are actors, musicians, naturalists, Catholic priests. In 2020, I came up with a series of literary discussions in Nyergesújfalu. I didn't think that the authors should come to the high school. I didn't even want to record it. However, a week after the first conversation, community spaces closed, the series moved to online space, and the recordings were taken at the school. The idea of the book was formulated in November 2023. I didn't plan this either, but it turned out that everything was added. (...) As a teacher, I believe in the strength of the meeting. I always asked students for a reflection on how they lived these occasions. Surprising feedback was received. We organized text analysis competitions to create an embarrassing experience for authors by having to juggling the analysis of their own works. I don't want to pretend that we don't know how difficult this course is. I don't want to pretend that this is the most beautiful course for many of us. This series keeps me in desperate situations. I would like to advertise that it is possible to do this. I hope this book can motivate colleagues.

// Dániel Horváth (Esztergom, 1985) high school teacher. He has been organizing contemporary literary discussions at the Saléz High School in Szalesz and the Kernstok Gallery for five years. He is the editor of local publications and published his book on school dramas in 2022 (Smart and balgas). Some of his prose attempts were announced by the Life and Literature, but his account has not actually been opened.

// Bálint Csabay-Tóth (Békéscsaba, 1998) writer, poet, member of the Association of Young Writers and the Frequent Table Workshop, as well as the PhD student of the SZTE Doctoral School of Literature, his research area is the work of Hungarian literature in the 20th century and Judith Sziráky.

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