The City Builder (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: George Konrád
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: An unnamed provincial city in Hungary
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Communism or communists, Disasters, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Hungary or Hungarians
- Locales: Hungary
Characters Discussed
The narrator, an aged city planner and former professor in a central Hungarian town. He has been awarded many degrees and diplomas and honored for his role in the technical progress of his city in the early days of socialism. Keenly aware of his own physical and moral degeneration, he at times seems obsessed with death and guilt as he lives alone with his memories in an apartment stuffed with an accumulation of useless objects. In the city all around him, he sees reminders in concrete of the errors of his life, errors that can be erased only by dynamite. As...
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