Critic and literary historian, was deputy editor-in-chief, 1981-83 editor-in-chief of the periodical Mozgó Világ (Moving World). In 1983 he was dismissed for political reasons. In 1987 was present at the meeting in Lakitelek. Was vice president of the Hungarian Democratic Forum in charge of party organization, MP of HDF and headed the cultural committee of the Hungarian parliament after the triumph of the oppositional forces in the parlamentary elections of 1990. Led the parlamentary fraction of HDF until 1994. In 1996 he left HDF and 1996-1998 was MP of the Hungarian Democratic People's Party.