György Dragomán's novel "The White King" is set during the era of the Ceaucescu dictatorship. Told from a child's perspective, this story of the experience of psychic violence and brutalisation and perfidy in human relationships has the atmosphere of a dark fairy tale, and succeeds in revealing the absurdity of dictatorships.

Focus Eastern Europe

PRESENTER: Silvia Szarková SPEAKER: Max Gertsch