Az utolsó történet. Novellák, elbeszélések. [The Last Story. Short stories] Târgu Mureș, Lector Publishers, 2022.

 Category: fiction

Pages: 160
Cover: hardback
ISBN: 978-606-8957-35-7

Ferenc Vincze (born 1979, Târgu Mureș, Romania) is a writer, translator, and literary historian. He is editor of the literary periodical Szépirodalmi Figyelő. He received the Géza Csáth Literary Award in 2023, presented by the FISZ (Hungarian: Fiatal Írók Szövetsége, Association of Young Writers). He authored the following books: A macska szeme. Prózai írások. [Cat Eye] Napkút–FISZ, 2007; Desertum. (1. kiadás) Regény. Orpheusz, 2014; A hegyi hódok tündöklése és bukása. Novellák, elbeszélések. [The Rise and Fall of the Mountain Beavers] Lector, 2020.

Ferenc Vincze’s latest collection of prose explores the problem of alienation, whether it’s the relationship between man and woman, village and city, or parent-child. Although alienation and loneliness are recurring themes, the short stories here explore the strange narratives of separation with subtle humour and deep compassion. In most of the short stories, Vincze writes about the Hungarian reality of the last two decades, or just a segment of it. Without any embellishment, romantic pathos or political hypocrisy, he describes the life of the average poor person in Hungary, whether unemployed in the countryside, a teacher or a pensioner.