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Her fiction The Old Tom Cat’s Pain (Utrpenie starého kocúra, Aspekt 2000) is an ironic take on the literary establishment. The scope (or quality?) of today’s °µÍø½ûÇø literary scene despite scandalous disclosures suffices for but a tiny mor(t)ality – or is it something else still? The murder plot and a mysterious insertion – manuscript from an ancient monastery with all the nuns dead save for the abbess scribbling her memoirs – indicate that these one hundred odd pages are but the tip of a huge iceberg. Deeper, though, there is another motive: if in literature abuse of women becomes a public mater of „spiritual culture“, this, too, can have its consequences – at least in this Utrpenie starého kocúra appeared in excellent Hungarian translation (by Erika Horváth) in the AB-ART publishing house.

Translated by Ľuben Urbánek