Örkény István - Niagara Nagykávéház - Novellák II.

The fifth and sixth volumes of István Örkény's new oeuvre series cover the writer's short stories, as a prepared surprise: looking behind the previously published popular short novels and short stories, the reader can embark on an exciting journey of discovery from the source of the most characteristic motifs and themes, from the early grotesque, to the feverish, young pace of the pre-war era through the chronicles of threats and destruction to the dizziness of the traumas of suffering and survival. The heroes of Örkény's writings seem to be constantly playing cat's game, where fate is sometimes euphoric, sometimes cruel, sometimes defensive. "Let's live adventurously, live dangerously!" - shouts one of them on a New Year's Eve in the twentieth century. Word for word, this vow has been fulfilled.
Borrowing the title of Örkény's very first volume, Tengertánc (Novellas I.) collects the harvest from the thirties to the end of the fifties, and then Niagara Nagykávéház (Novellas II.) continues the series from the pieces of the writer's silence to the last masterpieces.