Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood
The Guardian55m ago1 newsroom
A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak A lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone behind the door of her own home. A retired general living alone…