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@yarbThe Transylvanian trilogy They were found wanting : Book three, They were divided

ReviewFeb 6, 2025

In these second and third volumes the story of Lazslo Gyeroffy — the charismatic, dissipated foil to authorial stand-in and all-round stand-up guy Balint Abady — recedes into the background as its subject hits rock bottom and stays there, leaving the narrativ…

@yarbThe Transylvanian trilogy They were found wanting : Book three, They were divided

ReviewNov 22, 2024

The Great Hungarian Novel

Set among the Transylanian and broader Hungarian nobility a decade or so before WWI, but written in the mid-thirties, this is a Tolstoyan tale of personal and political upheaval. Through the dual foci of Counts (and, like seemingly everyone in the novel, cous…

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ListAug 20, 2024

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