One of the most versatile and prolific Hungarian prose writers of the first half of the twentieth century, Gyula Krúdy produced an extensive body of works that continues to be appreciated in Hungarian literature. Although his works were relegated to a minor role in the Marxist canon for some decades after World War II, their importance and innovative nature cannot be questioned. As part of the first generation of authors formed around the literary journal Nyugat (West), which included Endre Ady (1877-1919), Mihaly Babits (1883-1941), Dezso Kosztolányi (1885-1936), and Milán Füst (1888-1967), among others, Krúdy played a significant role in the development of modernism in Hungarian literature. Krúdy is considered to be an influential innovator in Hungarian prose. His impressionistic and lyrical prose style, especially in his major works of fiction, is characteristic of contemporary European...