Status Updates From My Happy Days in Hell

Petöfi Sandor, de Béranger, the Austro-Hungarian empire's corrupt noblemen from the slovak countryside, exiled hungarians in Paris before the nazi takeover all come alive in your mind decades after their death thanks to Faludy. It's beautifully written and intellectualy demanding. The christian heretics under constantine the great wouldn't like being associated to the communists some 1500 years later.