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"One overcast afternoon, when the house became as
stuffy with pipe-smoke as if every one of his forefathers had clambered
down from the framed portraits to light up, and antique medals, Maria
Theresa thalers and Roman coins failed to keep him entertained; when
pacing back and forth with arms behind his back became as dreary as
the needless rainfall, and he found himself sending up a surprisingly
prolonged sigh, as if some great sorrow had scurried just then through
the door, to hide quickly under the old raincoats only to shamble forth
in the night and crouch by the sleeper's bedside like a silent old man...
On such an afternoon Andor Álmos-Dreamer visited his former lover, Madame
Risoulette, to confide in her all his troubles and heartaches."
(from: Sunflower, translated by John Bátki)
"Krúdy writes of imaginary people, of imaginary events, in dream-like settings; but the spiritual essence of his persons and of their places is stunningly real, it reverberates in our minds and strikes at our hearts." (John Lukacs, The New Yorker, 1 December, 1986)
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