Nature and literature
 
Those who have read the manuscript of my new volume (test readers, editor, publisher) often remark that most of the short stories are characterised by a close-to-nature approach, an opening from the intimate to the cosmos. They ask whether I intended to draw readers' attention to the relationship between nature and man.
I have been thinking about this. It's not easy to analyse my own stories through objective lenses, but I don't think I had any explicitly ecocritical aims in mind during the creation of this work, although I'm not far from an ecocritical perspective. 

What is therefore dominant in the short stories are my own processes of living and living. Nature is omnipresent, in micro and macro level, in my life, with a strong positive overtone, in an almost inseparable unity with man. Respecting and protecting nature is as clear to me as the fact that we ourselves are its organic components, its creative gods. (Based on Béla Hamvas: man, as microthetos)
Although landscape and nature have appeared in literary works from the very beginning - think of folk art, nature writing, landscape prose - Rousseau's nature still had a strong negative connotation, almost as the opposite of social values. It was only much later, in the period of Romanticism, that the power and influence of nature became positive and reassuring, almost glorified.
 
Nineteenth-century literature created 'intimate nature'. The flower garden around the house, the sight of the ploughs, the rustle of the pine trees behind the street. What is close to us, what we live in. And let's admit it, the word nature has a different meaning for everyone, because it has a strong emotional charge, it is imbued with individual, specific experiences, and it touches not only the emotional but also the moral. The LANDSCAPE also includes the human being. Like the LANDSCAPE is, so is the man to whom the specific landscape belongs. Perhaps this is the approach that emerges in my writings: man lives in an interactive flow with his immediate and wider environment, with plants, animals, minerals. That is why in my understanding plants, animals, minerals, waters are not here FOR US, humans, but live and breathe WITH US.
 
Terrestrial life is a mutual, reverent, shared experience of man and nature.
I believe in conservation, in vega/vegan lifestyle, in the common healing of man and nature.
And this is in the short stories.  

 
 
 

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