Szindbád ifjusága: próza

A young Szindbád, once a modest pupil at the border gymnasium and the town’s most celebrated ballroom dancer, now sets out on a nostalgic quest to retrace the footsteps of his adolescence. He boards a train, then a horse‑drawn carriage, and finally a three‑horse sled that claws its way across the snow‑covered Carpathian passes, the distant bells echoing his solitary thoughts.

As the frozen Poprád river slides beneath the sled, the stark winter scenery awakens memories of school corridors, dancing lessons, and the warm aromas of holiday feasts. The journey becomes a meditation on how the landscape—its towering white peaks, dark pine forests, and glittering ice—mirrors the inner landscape of a man who has grown from a lanky teenager into a broad‑shouldered, seasoned traveler, eager to reconnect with the moments that shaped him.