Publisher's Synopsis
During the early twentieth century, Hungary is rife with political upheavals: the difficult equilibrium of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy begins to crack, political instability is pushing the country to the brink of collapse, and the aristocracy is beginning to prove itself to be incapable of governing. Through the eyes of the novel's three protagonists-the young count Bálint Abády, his cousin and promising artist László Gyeroffy, and his unhappily married friend Adrienne Miloth-we witness the political and social circumstances that led to the empire's demise. This is the first novel of the Transylvanian Trilogy Miklós Bánffy published between 1934 and 1940, and it is considered one of most important Central European narrative works from the first half of the twentieth century.
En los albores del siglo XX en Hungrìa se suceden las convulsiones polìticas: el difìcil equilibrio de la Monarquìa Austrohúngara comienza a resquebrajar, la inestabilidad polìtica está llevando el paìs al colapso, y la aristocracia comienza a evidenciar su incapacidad para gobernar. A través de los ojos de los tres protagonistas principales de esta novela-el joven conde Bálint Abády, su primo y prometedor artista László Gyeroffy, y su amiga infelizmente casada Adrienne Miloth-se nos van revelando los acontecimientos polìticos y sociales que llevaron a la caìda del imperio. Ésta es la primera novela de la Trilogìa transilvana que Miklós Bánffy publicó entre 1934 y 1940, y está considerada como una de las obras más importantes de la narrativa centroeuropea de la primera mitad del siglo XX.
