In The Red Ring, the writer returns us to the methods of the standard French realist school, in a detective style that is not devoid of suspense, and invites us to reconsider our political affiliations and alignments, regardless of their differences, and to scrutinize their origin and motives. He also asks us again the big questions about the issues of war, death, patriotism, and loyalty. Through a story that took place shortly after World War II in the French region of Berry, where a heroic veteran is arrested. He was detained in a cell that was a military barracks, and an emaciated dog barked at the door day and night.
Not far from her, a young woman lives the peasant life she was not made for, hoping to wait.
A young aristocratic judge investigates the detainee's case, after the war stripped him of his ideals and values.
Linking these characters is a dog that holds the keys to the story.
"A traveler by moonlight"
One of the most important Hungarian novels of the modern era, penned by one of the great Hungarian and European novelists alike, Szerb Antal, the famous author, novelist, translator and literary historian. This novel was published in its first Hungarian edition in 1937, achieving success at the local, international and global levels, and was turned into cinematic films, plays and serials. A novel that delves into the analysis of the human psyche, where the hero tries hard to return to the past through the time machine, and to complete his enjoyment of his youth away from marriage, but to no avail. Man does this, his destiny is written, and he must live it. The hero of our novel, Mihai, tries to escape from his married life, but the end of the novel is where it began. The novel ends with this sentence, “As long as man lives, something will inevitably and always happen,” along with other details.
The Whole Kremlin Army: A Brief History of Contemporary Russia
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It is common knowledge in Russia that all decisions are made by one person: Vladimir Putin. This is partly true. In fact, all decisions are made by Putin. But Putin is not one person. It is a great collective mind. Dozens, even hundreds of people guess every day what decisions Putin should make. Vladimir Putin himself is guessing all the time about what decisions he must make in order to be popular, to be understood and to gain the support of “the great collective Vladimir Putin.” This is a very important myth: that everything in Russia is related to Putin, that without him everything would change and that the current image of Putin - the terrible Russian Tsar - was shaped for him, often without his participation: by courtiers, foreign partners, and journalists. This collective Vladimir Putin has been praising his memories all these years, in order to prove to himself that he is right. In order to convince himself that his actions were logical, that he had a plan and a strategy, and that he had not committed mistakes, but rather he was forced to act in this way, because he was struggling with enemies and fighting a harsh and continuous war. That's why my book is a history of an imagined war. A war that must not end, otherwise we would be forced to admit that it never existed. We have all invented a Putin character that we like. Most likely, it will not be the last character.
