"A posthumously published Hungarian masterpiece that reflects on fragmented lives."--
Szilárd Borbély was an authority on Hungarian literature of the late Baroque period as well as a writer and was widely considered to be one of the most important European poets of the post-Communist period. Ottilie Mulzet was awarded the National Book Award for Translated Literature for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming in 2019.