"This work is one of the most extraordinary undertakings of our literature, an astonishing feat: an unprecedented "reconstruction" of the variegated personality, delightfully rich oeuvre, and meticulously accurate biography of a poetess imagined at the beginning of the 19th century, with a stormy life, who never existed...
Here, Weöres can depict, describe, create and move figures to his heart's content, round out stories, flourish in verse forms deemed dead, live in an ancient, richly flavored language, play with a grotesquely outdated form of writing, interplay the fictional with historical names and situations in a bizarre and daring way, and so much more. from page to page, it paints the entire era in a colorful and elegant way, so that we would not be able to know it otherwise even from historical manuals".
Imre Csanádi

After the first edition in 1972, Weöres continued to expand his work, and the definitive Psyché was first published in 1982.
The publisher is now republishing the 2010 edition, expanded with prose and poetry about Psyche found in the author's estate.