A régi jó táblabirák: Regény

Stepping into the bustling cafés of late‑19th‑century Budapest, the narrator recalls a round table that once gathered the city’s most familiar “good clerks” – poets, scholars, officials, and aging voices of wisdom. In his youthful days he claimed a modest seat among them, listening to lively debates that felt like a family gathering, where every absent member was mourned and every grievance met with a hundred remedies. The prose drifts between laughter and melancholy, recalling how the once‑noisy discussions faded as the old generation slipped away, leaving only the echo of their counsel.

The book offers a vivid portrait of those vanished bureaucrats, blending gentle satire with sincere admiration. Listeners will taste the camaraderie, the earnest advice, and the subtle humor that colored their counsel on everything from law to poetry. It serves as a portal to a world where public service was a blend of intellect, modesty and shared humanity, inviting you to savor the fading chorus of the old good clerks.