Hybrid “Monodrama”—Subjective Side Note on the Birth and Afterlife of a Monologue

This essay consists of a reflection on an in-depth sociological interview conducted with the author. The text focuses on the subjective experience. The research of sociologist Miklós Hadas concerns the problem of the changing and plural habitus over time. Due to the author’s professional training, he first contextualizes his experience according to some ethnographic and anthropological ideas—establishing that the so-called etic and emic aspects are completely (and interestingly) resolved within the framework of the monologue. Based on a series of subjective experiences, he also provides possible answers to a series of questions related to the monologue. For example, how much the text can be personal or shared? Can it be considered a whole or are we talking about a kind of specific fragment? Finally, he also provides some possible answers to why the genre of the monologue is a useful tool for examining the identity and habitus of persons associated with an ethnic minority.