Árvácska : regény

"Zsigmond Móricz's novel "Nobody's Flower," which appears here for the first time in German translation, is one of his last works and belongs among the most moving and devastating texts of Hungarian literature: a book that, as Móricz stated, should make readers shudder, a story filled with provocative drama and aggressive impulses, but at the same time characterized by oppressive lyricism. It was the year 1941, and the novel draws a bleak panorama of human baseness and crudeness, of human misery and decadence, of a fallen, hopeless world in which human beings are animals rather than bearing God's likeness, and their lives are without comfort or hope, ready to meet their doom. His incorruptibly sharp, dark view of the grotesque character of a world without values, plummeting into its own vacuum, has made Móricz (1897-1942) into one of the classic authors of the 20th century; his portrayals of the world and its humans have not lost their validity and relevance. (From the afterword)"