Kaffka Margit - Az üvegkisasszony and más elbeszélések

Margit Kaffka's oeuvre is completed by her stories. Humor, irony and sentimentality flow from the stories in the sixth volume of the Women's Masterpieces series. In her profound understanding of the childish and female soul, the "very, very great woman writer" of the 20th century - Endre Ady's term - perhaps has no equal in Hungarian literature.
The conscious choice of her subjects is accompanied by the drawing of well-known and well-known characters, from the self-conscious type of woman at the beginning of the last century to the humble servant soul, with an excellent perception of women's dilemmas that are still valid today. For example, in the one-night drama of the short story "Este" about the young lady, who, convinced of her fiance's wrongdoing, comes to terms with her fate with surprising speed, presenting the natural history of a bourgeois marriage based on female self-sacrifice and struggling within limits.
Reading Margit Kaffka's stories is both a sensory and an intellectual experience due to her text, which is unprecedentedly rich in sophisms, apt adjectives, and sparkling similes, as well as the "...rhythmic, found, satisfying sentences" she describes.