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“A Central-European vintage to be found and relished.”—Eva Hoffman“A spectacular book. Nightmarish, humorous and jubilant.”—Libération "Even though it took nearly forty years for Metropole to be translated into Language, the book stands up nicely. In exactly the same way that Kafka becomes relevant again each time you renew your driver's license, Karinthy catches that suffering, scary and exciting state-of coming to the whim of a different land."—Jessa Crispin for NPR “I don’t realize when I’ve read a far more ideal book-a dynamically hopeless idol (in the type of Kafka), and a beautiful control of motion, nothing extra, nothing inappropriate, creative and without artifice.”—Michael Hoffman in TLS Books of the Entire Year 2009Budai sees herself in a strange town where he can’t understand a word anyone says. One claustrophobic time blurs into another as he frantically struggles to endure within this vastly overpopulated city where there are as numerous dialects as there are people.Metropole is just a suspenseful and haunting Hungarian vintage, and a vision of hell unlike any previously imagined.Ferenc Karinthy was created in Budapest in 1921.