„While the soft-boiled egg is boiling or the number you are dialling answers (provided it is not engaged, of course), you have ample time to read one of these short stories which, because of their brevity, I have come to think of as one minute stories.” (István Örkény)
The Tragedy of Man is the most controversial work in the long history of Hungarian literature. When it was first published in 1862, it was hailed as a great achievement, but at the same time it-ga...