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His major novel, Pusztak nepe (1936; People of the
Puszta), describes the misery suffered by the Hungarian peasantry.
Outside Budapest we were taken by horse-drawn carriage to a ranch on the
puszta (a steppe on Europe''s largest grassland, the Great Hungarian Plain) to be given a riding display by the herdsmen and treated to a glass of barack palinka, the local apricot schnapps.
(9.) One of the latest works in Hungarian is Geza Kallay's excellent book on the language of Othello from a language-philosophical approach: Geza Kallay, Nem
puszta szo (Budapest: Liget, 1996).
He fought for their social betterment, and he also extolled the superior moral qualities of the simple
puszta people.
About a two-hour drive southeast of Budapest, and well worth a day trip, lies a flat, fertile plain commonly called the
Puszta but more accurately referred to as the Alfold.
Given that it's an undistributable 7 1/2 hours long, you can thank your local film festival (or not) for an opportunity to see Satantango, Bela Tarr's bleakly comic allegory of social disintegration on the muddy Hungarian
puszta. Simplest put, Satantango is a characteristically East European tale of hapless peasants and charismatic swindlers who choreograph nature (rain, mist, wind) as a presence.
(7.) Geza Kallay, "'Ha megful a fuldoklo rend ...': a rend fogalma Shakespeare dramaiban" [The concept of order in Shakespeare's plays], in Nem
puszta tett (Budapest: Liget, 1999) 1945, p.
Five years later, he returned to his native country, and from then on he lived mainly in Budapest while writing poems and a very influential village sociography, People of the
Puszta, on the lot of the country poor.
The surreal, utopian tale of Ervin Lazar, straight from the "Twilight Zone" with resurrected and bleeding corpses, is also set in a truly desolate region: the
puszta with its tragic present-day populace.