Hungarian Fiction

Review: Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy

April 30, 2020
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Hungarian Fiction, Hungary

Reading Ferenc Karinthy’s Metropole is like being lost in someone else’s nightmare where there are no exits. Karinthy creates an existential version of hell, stunning the reader not by blatant displays of horrifying circumstances, but by a gradual series of small failures that defeat and degrade the narrator and the reader.

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