This book opens a series of publications presenting to the Russian reader the best works of modern and classical Hungarian literature, which, in terms of its quality and high spirit, occupies a worthy place among the world’s leading literatures. Janos Chai’s novel “The Guy” (published in Hungary in 2007 ), I think, well illustrates this high level both spiritually and artistically. It is hardly possible to find another book in world literature that would so shatteringly debunk the illusions in which man has lived in captivity for the last few centuries.