Degré Alajos novellái (1. kötet)

A vivid portrait of mid‑nineteenth‑century Budapest unfurls across these stories, where ordinary streets pulse with restless thoughts and hidden longings. The narrator moves between bustling cafés, dim printing houses and quiet rooms, letting the city itself become a mirror for desire, doubt and the search for meaning. With a tone that shifts from lyrical lament to sharp observation, each novella invites listeners to linger on the small, often unsettling moments that shape a life.

The opening piece begins with a narrator haunted by a single, brilliant day that shattered his routine and left an aching echo of love and loss. He wrestles with the nature of memory, the fragile border between joy and torment, and the way art tries to capture what slips through the fingers of time. Through intimate dialogues and restless inner monologues, the story offers a heartfelt meditation on what it means to feel wholly alive—even when the world seems to push toward oblivion.