Paul Gaston

A Bearer of Divine Revelation

Fiction

“These riveting stories, linked with novelistic unity and texture, spring from the genius of a Hungarian writer who himself was seared in the cauldron of the war and repression that he renders here so vividly. As his stories unfold, their protagonist escapes first to England and then to the American South, where he finds security and serenity. Memories of his lost youth and his struggles for survival, however, constantly emerge to shape the ways he experiences his new life, reminding us of Faulkner's sense of the past in the present. Indeed, though he writes with the sensibility of eastern Europe's best writers, Lawrence Dorr is also a Southern writer with a sure understanding of irony and burden. He melds two traditions to give us stories of distinction that are uniquely his own — stories that may enrich us all.”