"Contrary to nothing that would be legal, everything here is illegal to the last nail. Illegality leads to a bad conscience, and from a bad conscience only temporary and transitory things are born. Because of lawlessness, everything around the mining pond is temporary and temporary, from the wooden houses wood is missing for the most part, cement is missing from concrete, wells do not reach the water, fences can simply be jumped over, chimneys don't blow, stoves don't get hot for God's sake, trees die out in a short time and fall on top of the jumpable fence, which then no one will ever fix it again."
Gergely Péterfy's novel Bányató, written in 2004 and published in a new edition, invites the reader into a strange world, where the protagonists try to bring meaning to existence among the loitering figures pushed to the fringes of society.