This volume contains Gergely Péterfy’s public affairs essays written between 2013 and 2016.
From the perspective of the traditions of humanism and the Enlightenment, and drawing on the experience of the Eastern European intelligentsia, he uses literary and subjective tools to trace the shift to the right in Hungarian politics and society, the spread of propaganda underpinning Russian ideological and economic expansion, and the intellectual and economic failure of Hungary’s integration into Europe. *East of Everything* is a ruthless yet ironic portrait of contemporary Hungary; it can also be read as a follow-up to and a timely appendix to the author’s Aegon Prize-winning epic novel, *The Stuffed Barbarian*.