Mészáros Tibor (szerk.): Once I lived, I, Sándor Márai. Patterns from a globetrotting Hungarian's life (Budapest, 2004)

Márai's secret

mysteries of the world of the past could be found. His heroes were dissected, his every word cut in two. Their content examined by day and by night. They even questioned whether he ever lived. /15 if the soul of the world spoke on some day, enigmatically, the human soul, directly, and impersonally. The researchers then shrugged their shoulders indifferently. It is impossible to decipher. You can't decipher the universe. You have to accept it as it is."

The second part of Western Marches describes his experiences in London and compares the Hungarian and English ways of thinking and seeing - he even compares landscapes.

"Landscape and horizon - these are distinct. The English landscape's closeness to the Hungarian explains the affection that always emerges in every English person who travels to our geographical and spiritual land. There is a a kind of special relationship between how we see the landscape and our behaviour."

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