Hungarian Disarray Hungarian Crime according to Western, Bicultural, and Hungarian Writers

A triple view of Hungary: that of Western novelists, that of two Hungarian novelists writing, one in French (Radványi) and the other in English (Fagyas), as well as that of Hungarian novelists translated from Magyar. The latter are presented as a continuum, starting from a generic core (American-style urban thriller, teenage noir) and moving away from it (ironic treatment of the whodunit?, criminal enigma governed by another novelistic structure, revelation upsetting a family history).