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
Pincher Martin who uses his intelligence, education and training to source food, collect fresh water and alert any potential rescuers. It is in fact during this rational phase that Martin is at his most delusional. It is only when insanity takes hold that he begins to comprehend the reality of his predicament: 'There is a pattern emerging. I do not know what the pattern is but even my dim guess at it makes my reason falter'. The novel's twist ending reveals that Martin actually drowned shortly after his ship was sunk; when his body is found, it is noted that "he didn't