About Gold in the Mud (Sararany, 1910) Torn between the torpid bliss of his home life and a seething quest for prosperity, Dani Turi, the peasant Don Juan and leader of Kiskara village, follows his urge to break the bonds of his low social status, only to find his path barred by the aristocratic landowners bent on maintaining their centuries-long hold on the reins of power. Zsigmond Moricz (1879-1942), one of Hungary's greatest novelists and the first to portray the peasant classes with full regard for their human aspirations, reveals in this riveting narrative his mastery in drawing complex...
About Gold in the Mud (Sararany, 1910) Torn between the torpid bliss of his home life and a seething quest for prosperity, Dani Turi, the peasant Don ...
By situating Gustav Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as well as in Meyrink's work, Somnambulistic Lucidity echoes Meyrink's own attempts to find lucidity in the ambiguity of somnambulism.
By situating Gustav Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as w...
