Árpád Göncz Nat Turner", John Ball's "In the Heat of the Night", Colleen McCullough's "The Thorn Birds", Yasunari Kawabata's "The Lake", John Updike's "Rabbit Redux" and "Rabbit is Rich", and "The Inheritors", "Pincher Martin", "The Spire" and "The Pyramid" and "Rites of Passage" by William Golding. His own works include both novels and dramas; "Men of God" (1974), "Sarusok" (1974), "Magyar Médeia" (1976), "Rácsok" (1979), "Találkozások" (1980) are among the most notable. He is also the author of "Encounters" (essays, 1980), "Homecoming and Shavings" (short stories, 1991), "Hungarian Medea" (play, 1979), "Iron Bars" (play, 1979), "Balance" (play, 1990). Göncz worked incredibly hard
The Spire is used towards the end of the novel, where Jocelin lies dying. Jocelin declares "it's like the apple-tree!", making a reference to the Garden of Eden and Humanity's first sin of temptation but also perhaps the pagan ideas that have been constantly threaded into Jocelin's mind as he spends more and more time up in the Spire, raised above the ground (and further away from his church and his role as God's voice on earth). Jocelin's degrading spine can be seen as a micro-macro analogy to the unstable spire. He believes the former manifests as the presence of his angel