Socks on the Chandelier, Lives by a Thread – File No. 12 198
Socks on the Chandelier, Lives by a Thread – File No. 12 198

Summary/Abstract: After putting things off time and time again, it was about three years ago that I started reading the files in the archives of my father and my grandfather. My grandfather finished legal studies in Budapest in 1889, and opened his law office in Becskerek in 1893. The office has continued to exist since then. My father took it over from my grandfather. Today it is led by the widow of my younger brother. I think all files have remained as they were stored. Countries, systems, official languages – just as the name of my home town – kept changing time and again, but the files have stayed on the shelves next to each other (sometimes above each other). There are very few files in which all documents (submissions, letter of the clients, letters to the clients, evidence, judgements) were restricted to one language only. Hungarian, Serbian and German have been used interchangeably. Destinies have also kept changing. For me, these files represent some sort of a private entrance into history – the history of everyday life.

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