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A middle-aged Hungarian intellectual, now confined to an insane asylum, thinks back on his disastrous social relationships, his role in the 1956 revolution, and the nature of life in Hungary before and after communist control
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In this novel by the author of the acclaimed Case Worker, a Hungarian intellectual reflects on his life before and after his country's bitter transformation to a Communist state. Now, at 55, a failed son, brother, husband, lover, and revolutionary, he finds himself behind the wall of an insane asylum, feeling curiously protected from the world on the other side. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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