Lovak a folyóban

The narrator has written his major work, but the hoped-for success never came, and his marriage has run aground too. He withdraws to the basement flat of a house full of strange tenants, trying to settle accounts with his ambitions and to bring order to a life that grows ever murkier. A painful and sarcastic chronicle of personal collapse, the novel ranges over Empedocles and Gollum, the board game of Goethe and Albert Speer, and someone pushing passengers under the metro beneath Gellért Hill in Budapest.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

396 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Hungary

First published

2021 by Jelenkor

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9789635181230 (original)