The daily routine of a man in charge of children at a state  welfare organizat and the demands that are made upon him are depicted in this novel set in present day Hungary.

The case worker

Literature & Fiction

Konrád, György

Contemporary

Hutchinson

An architect in an unnamed city considers his life, his work, and the many-layered history of the city he and his family―architects all―have contributed to building. In the days after World War II―during which American bombers destroyed much of what his father built―he becomes a Stalinist planner and realizes that the power of the nobility, the wealthy and the bourgeois has been usurped by technocrats. Vanished by those technocrats into the communist underworld of torture and imprisonment, he is eventually released into a post-Stalinist world and becomes the chief builder in a provincial town.Told with wit and elegance by one of Hungary’s greatest novelists, The City Builder is one of the most important and impassioned books about the indignities of living in―and contributing to―a cruelly depersonalized society.

The city builder

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Der Komplize.

Suhrkamp

<p>The daily routine of a man in charge of children at a state welfare organizat and the demands that are made upon him are depicted in this novel set in present day Hungary.</p>

Der Besucher: Roman. Mit einem Nachwort von Walter Jens

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

Der Komplize: Roman. Aus dem Ungarischen von Hans-Henning Paetzke

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