Master of the Revels

Benjamin Markovits

  • They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
    Arcadia, 596 pp, £12.99, March 1999, ISBN 1 900850 15 X
  • They Were Found Wanting by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfiled and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
    Arcadia, 470 pp, £12.99, June 2000, ISBN 1 900850 29 X
  • They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
    Arcadia, 326 pp, £11.99, August 2001, ISBN 1 900850 51 6

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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