Master of the Revels 
Benjamin Markovits
- They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
- They Were Found Wanting by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfiled and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
- They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
Count Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy describes a period of history the author knew at first hand: the decade of Hungarian life before the Great War and the end of the Habsburg Empire. Bánffy played a part in national affairs at the time, and his three novels, written twenty years on, look back with nostalgia, but also with bitterness. It’s clear that the good times contained the seeds of their own end, that a society obsessed with balls and duels and hunts was stepping blindly towards its own dissolution.
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Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.
Other articles by this contributor:
You Have Never Written Better · Byron’s Editor
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