The rocking horses sleep during the day

Erzsébet Schäffer is a journalist with an exceptional voice in the Women's Journal. In the columns of the paper, he created an individual-sounding genre that combines the traditions of portfolio writing, reportage and short story. Interviews with special conversations. Ervin Lázár wrote about him: "Confidence flows from him with such power that he sets one free." Readers of the weekly Women's Magazine are quite familiar with Erzsébet Schäffer's writings, which appear in the On the Road section. The author of the volume chose the beautiful idea of Simone Weil as the motto of the column - this is also the recommending line of the current volume: "We must learn to long for what is ours." The short writings testify that their author has an open eye to the world, and when his gaze wanders over either an object or a life situation recorded in a moment, he connects it through strange, philosophical thought processes. Nothing extraordinary happens in these little stories, at most only the adolescent chewing gum on his neck doesn’t give up his place to the tired-eyed elderly man, at most after a child’s school he hesitantly wanders on the boulevard, maybe disguises himself as a crippled beggar. In a word, non-world-shaking events are the themes of the writings, they are ordinary, even cases that can happen to us. The most beautiful summer of Life; a Two cloves of mandarin; a Two cheaters on the boulevard; a Biciklin; the Bean; the Bali season and the other stories are captivating the reader with their people-centeredness. This is because the author knows the secret, knows the path that leads "from soul to soul," and if the reader follows him on this path, he will have a real - lasting experience.