Dobozy
The Encirclement by Tamas Dobozy is a story in which a Professor, Teleki, makes several attempts to give speeches and lectures regarding a certain series of events all over North America. He is plagued however, by a certain blind individual, a Mr. Sandor, who follows him from lecture circuit to circuit. Sandor approaches him and hectors him. He is a particularly vindictive individual who accuses Professor Teleki of false presentations, pointing fingers at him and accusing Teleki of being blind, and offering up false information during his lecture series. What is interesting is that Sandor does not believe his accusations to be false at all. And, The Professor is deeply disturbed by the keep accuracy of some of the items Sandor points out about his lectures. He is uncertain as to how a blind man can report so many things, and how someone, anyone, can follow him so closely. Teleki's agents want to keep up the charade, because it is making money. The Professor finds these disturbances quite interruptive and distressing however, and is insistent they end sooner than later. The audience finds them entertaining however, to the point where they see the blind man as the good guy, and learn as much from him as they do from the actual published author. The Professor has gone as far as paying the heckler bribe money, but this has not stopped the man from attending his lecture circuit.
From the beginning of his work the author makes the point that the blind can see, and see very well, using an inner landscape in fact. This causes they reader to pause and question the actual definition of the term blindness, and other terms used within the piece of literature. This is a common tool used by authors to get the reader to question the terms and literary devices used by the author. It requires a closer reading of the material. An in depth study of pages...
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