About this book
PLEASURES on the PERIPHERY is a collection of authentic, occasionally surreal observations of life and work in the provinces of Sicily and People's Hungary 1966-1970. The narrator was short of money, trying to survive like everyone else, very much out on his own – but through his work in a position to encounter a wide cross-section of society. Twenty years later he was one of a team assisting in the local transition from communism to democracy ('Hello What?') in the distant south of Hungary, supported by an EC grant. The concept of 'socialism with a human face' pervades many of the descriptions included in this book and acts as a recurrent theme in its vignettes.The book includes a number of original photographs, and begins and ends with excursions to two non-peripheral places, London and the cloudy south-west of Poland.
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Table of contents
- FOREWORD.London 1962.
- 1965-1966. Vinti
- 1966. Il Mafioso
- 1966. Il Poliziotto
- 1966. Menefreghismo
- 1966. Sixty-nine, Morals, the Family and the Factory
- 1966. Il Latifondo
- 1968. In a Southern Country
- 1969. The White Colony
- 1969-1970. How Lucky You Are
- 1969. Unrechtsstaat
- 1969. Old Types
- 1970. Registration
- 1970. Pleasin’ Paul: An Evening with Elemér
- 1970. Laci
- 1985. Party Town
- 1969-1999. Red Teréz
- 1990. On the Balcony
- ENVOI 1963: On a Clear Day
- 1998: Cloudy Skies