Years of Running in Place

Author: Nora Nagy

In her new novel, Nora Nagy presents an extraordinary biography of the senses, from sight to touch, and from taste to smell to hearing, in honor of a revolution that yearned to go far beyond the sky, but instead found itself with two legs firmly rooted underground, stuck running in place. Between a revolution and a pandemic, five artists try to move forward, but discover that their lives have come to a halt after losing one of their own in the square. They lose their senses and try to regain them by clinging to art, love, and the small details that make up life. Characters created by the "January Reality" clung to the dream of transforming the dilemma of existence into art, and the turning point of revolution into a song... In doing so, Nora Nagy created a "novel of texts," where paintings and plays, daily life and dream hallucinations were present, in addition to a novel within a novel, with a narrative text that transcends traditional storytelling techniques to the expansiveness of experimentation. "Years of Running in Place" is a novel that creates a mural for an entire generation contemplating its defeat.