From Alexander Faludy’s review of Blue Danube title, The Monkey and Other Stories by Miklós Bánffy, in the Hungarian Observer:

“Count Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950) wrote captivatingly on a grand scale (his 3 volume epic Transylvanian Trilogy) but also a minute one—as this collection shows. The Monkey is a collection of nine stories written at dates between 1908 and 1946, but in their settings bridging a wider span of time. Helen in Sparta (1934) takes place in ancient Greece while The Infected Planet (1939) is filled with the brooding menace of the impending World War. Thomas Sneddon translates Hungarian with exemplary smoothness…”

To read the full review, see here»