Pavol Rankov - Túl a térképen

Pavol Rankov's (1964) Slovakian author Túl a kápárten is the author's fourth book published in Hungarian. We can follow the love story of two university students in the novel... actually. However, it wouldn't be Pavol Rankov if he didn't actually want to be there. Because it's not really just one story, and it's not just the love of Marek and Natália that is at the center of the work. But the dilemmas of the countryside and the city, politics and the citizen, or traditional values ​​and the consumer society are so familiar in Central Europe. What elevates Rankov's volume above the monotonous list of dilemmas is the incredibly sophisticated structure, the way the pieces of the stories fit together, sometimes as the text of the two young people, sometimes creating them with words. While we are constantly confronted with the naivety of our worldviews.

Author: Pavol Rankov