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Béla Zombory-Moldován: The Burning of the World (Paperback, 2014, NYRB Classics)

The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was abroad on vacation when World War I …

I told Miklósik, the corporal, to find out from the team leaders if anyone was unwell. He reported back promptly: no one. Just in time, too, because Győri, the battalion's medical officer, appeared. In peacetime, he was a dentist on the Ring, and this was the first time I had seen him riding a horse. He sat on it like a well-risen ball of dough.

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