Visszaemlékezéseim (1. kötet)

The author offers intimate recollections of his youth and early professional formation, favoring personal memories over formal history and emphasizing everyday life, student camaraderie, social gatherings, and intellectual ambitions. He describes university towns and study years, spirited patriotism and the personal effects of political upheaval, and uses anecdotes about classmates, lectures, and provincial society to provide the background for larger public events. Reflective passages on aging and memory are interwoven with vivid scenes of social rituals, career beginnings, and the quieter forces that shaped public life.