Gergely Péterfy
The Bányató was the author’s third novel in 2004, achieving significant success upon its first publication. In 2006, a film adaptation was made under the
We asked the director of the Association of Hungarian Book Publishers and Distributors about novel writing, literary policy, NER-compatibility, and parties at Moszkva Square.
Szilágyi Aladár interviewed prose writer Péterfy Gergely about three novels that paved the way for the author’s most successful book, Kitömött barbár (The Stuffed Barbarian).
In your latest novel, titled “The Stuffed Barbarian,” you outline the cultural and political historical background of the post-Enlightenment era, with the friendship between Ferenc
Gergely Péterfy is a novelist. He is among the best. Among other reasons, because he understands that not only the work itself, the printed book,
Literature stops at nothing and no one. In principle, everything can be made into literature. Every person, every place. That is why it was only
Péterfy Gergely’s book, Bányató, has been exceptionally well-received in the Frankfurter Allgemeine and the Neue Züricher Zeitung.