Instead of a more detailed “review,” I will now present several parallel state-historical perspectives in which some of the aforementioned differences appear. The first selected, case-study-worthy notable novel is Gergely Péterfy: Stuffed Barbarian, followed by Death in Buda, and finally the volume East of Everything, successive works like three pillars of an imaginative-conceptual-associative bridge that, despite the differences in their direct analogies or narrative tones, almost invite parallel-seeking, although this is by no means their authorial intent. The reason (or let us perhaps call it a “pretext”) is nothing more and nothing less than the author’s unflagging cheerfulness, his massive optimism despite disappointments, his enlightened value system, and his humanism built upon a vision of the whole world, avoiding all intellectual convolutions. Even if all this contains the interpretive digressions of “the devil only knows,” the tone of humanism—comprehensible despite the hopelessness of the times—still unites the volumes, even if there were no direct authorial intention to do so…