Dear Father-in-Law

The lyrical novella “Dear Father-in-Law” is permeated with motifs of farewell to everything wonderful and good one had had it his life. The theme of the novella is rare in the world literature – it is a story about human aging. Turning his soul inside out in an exhibitionistic way, Tibor Dery seems to deliberately puzzle his reader, who is not always sure whether the writer is actually serious or whether he is joking; whether he describes himself and his relatives or is it just a kind of an artistic generalization…