Fabulya's Wives and Other Stories

by Iván Mándy

Iván Mándy (23 December 1918 in Budapest – 1995 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer. [edit]Biography From 1945 on Mándy worked at the literary revue Újhold. After the Stalinist takeover he became a freelance writer. In 1989 he got again the chance to write for a literary newspaper. He was promoted as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 by the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. He died in 1995 in Budapest.

164 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian writer.
He wrote screenplays, appeared in films, and wrote children's books, too, one of the best known of which is the Csutak series, of which several have also been made into films.

Reviews

[cat ⋆*｡☆˚ · Rating 3 out of 5]

All stories end in a weird note.
Sometimes I felt out off context while reading because I don't have/grab the cultural and historical context.
I liked how the stories unroll; a lot of the characters are a bit picturesque and the plot is unique.
Foremost, the stories don't end necessarily in a "good ending" vibe.

[RD Chiriboga Moncayo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bleak tales of envy, paranoia, despair and sometimes love and lust among "Comrades" in 1950's Hungary.