Az Élet Leford Íthatatlan

Bilingual dictionary Hungarian - English and English - Hungarian composed by six small pocket-able volumes. Every translation is possible only through a long and unsure operation of intermediate translation that involves in every volume from three to four different languages. This interference opens the object's functionality to new meanings and tries to give interpretation to some sentences and reflections from the novel “The island”(original title A sziget) by Hungarian writer Sándor Márai (Kosice 1900 – San Diego 1989). These languages testify and merge places, people and memories from the journey of Victor Henrik Askenasi, the novel's main character, with real and biographical aspects linked to the Hungarian writer life between Europe and United States.
These volumes gives shape to the continuous and almost obsessive series of questions about life that the main character engaged during his journey, putting us in front of ruminations about destiny, the research of satisfaction, love, the meaning of words, language and silence. All these reflections are here represented through a long, unsure action of translation always suspended from its beginning and its end.