Gésa Csáth was a Hungarian psychiatrist, one of Freud’s first followers, as well as a music critic and opium addict. In 1919, at the age of 31, he killed his wife and then committed suicide, just one year after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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- “The stories are deranged little fables in the vein of Oscar Wilde but involving incest, animal torture and murder... An elegantly grotesque cult classic is once again obtainable, for those with the stomach for it.”— Wall Street Journal, Dec 16 2022
- “Striking... Csáth demonstrates a thrilling and unnerving commitment to amoral presentations of dark subject matter... this is a fearless work.”— Publishers Weekly, Sep 30 2022
