Balázs Keresztes from Hungary has had a couple of career detours in his life before he ended up studying and researching literature analysis of classics at the university. The 2020 lockdown pushed him to launch his own YouTube channel, Négy Fal Között Olvasókör (Inside the Four Walls Reading Circle) where he focuses on analysing Shakespeare, Hemingway, Oscar Wilde just to mention a couple of his projects. This channel gave him a national fame and thousands started to follow him for his thought-provoking talks. He is an avid reader of classics, and during our conversation, he shares his interesting insights about why and how his attention turned to classics - and not to contemporary literature. He is currently teaching Art History and a guest lecturer at ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University), Hungary. Enjoy his analysis of Moby Dick by Herman Melville and his journey through this talk! You can join his reading circle (vlog or real life) here: https://www.facebook.com/olvassnegyfalkozott and https://www.youtube.com/c/N%C3%A9gyFalK%C3%B6z%C3%B6tt for videos and content, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAmkZvXziJs for information about the current reading circle.
