Bödőcs Tibor - Mulat a Manézs

"Bödőcs's third book is art of the highest rank. But it is not a glorification of tyrannical male love! No. Bödőcs continues to deliver stoutly hard, frozen sheepdog-like, woman-adoring art, which trickles down to the reader in such a way that the reader constantly swallows the bitter morsels of cleverness and squealing that proclaims tyranny forcefully on his parched throat, like a plate of delicious sea lion and foreskin cream soup.

Manézs is fun! Let us, readers, have fun too, because fortunately for us, this absurd circus-dictatorship is merely the product of the author's well-known, lively fantasy, which has little to do with our real vision of the future. The circus is one, the tent is one!" Krúbi

The circus empire of Hettikánia is preparing for a jubilee: the thirtieth anniversary of Luigi King's rise to power is celebrated majestically.

There is something to celebrate! The former circus director tuned in to the heart of the blessed people and wonderfully flourished Cirkuszhaza: all over the country rose plantations are blooming (and thus there is work for everyone), the scroungers are only scrounging within themselves (or abroad) - because how could a healthy soul dirty what is health itself , honesty, beauty, patriotism and masculine strength? Hettikánia's Porondmester is facing a difficult day, but he can withstand the creases even after all these years: he snorts (almost), gives striking interviews, mingles with people, eats, drinks, puts on a clown costume, consults with his chief adviser , kufrcol (really) and so on. By the end, what a denial, you get a little tired. Because he is also made of man, even if Hettikan history made him of special material.

Tibor Bödőcs's first novel, Meg se ochúnták, was a work of love (one could say realist) for the Hungarian countryside; Mulat a Manézs is the carnival anthem of the Hungarian language capable of circus feats, a wild, baroquely rampant satire of a country in which the unadulterated genius of populism rules with the simplicity of ax swinging.