Escapes from myself

by Zoltan Bartok

Overview

Life has its ways to jerk you around, to drop you into the freezing cold ocean of "love", and to burn your brain when you least expect it. Whether your moves are carefully planned or they just happen randomly makes no big difference: you either survive the challenges or you don't. 
I am no fan of compromising. Whenever I could, I escaped situations I did not like.
Close to the age of seventy, there is one more escape I will have to 'perform'. I strongly believe that all the struggle, all the learning, and whatever this earthly existence means, can not just go to waste. Religion and science also teaches that the soul never dies. So, I have reasons to be optimistic. Of course, I am very patient now, this final escape is not something I would want to hasten.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538076620
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	04/10/2018
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

The author was accused of sabotage on the 10th anniversary of the 1956 revolution. He was 17 years old. He tried to escape through the Hungarian-Yugoslav border with one of his classmates. Caught by border patrol, he was jailed and treated very badly. He barely survived the month-long ordeal.
Stamped as an enemy of the state, he was taken to a labor camp at age 19: he had to do forced labor instead of regular military service.
Against all odds, he was able to break free from the communist bloc at age 23. Of course, given the brainwashing his generation was subjected to, when he reached the Italian shore, swimming from Yugoslavia during a night in August of 1973, his quest for freedom was just beginning.
After spending 6 months in Italy, he was able to settle in the USA where he had an adventurous life.