Timár Virgil fia
By Mihály Babits
Cover: Landscape in Springtime with the Flower Hill (1898) by Károly Ferenczy (1862-1917) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Virgil Timár, a Cistercian priest who teaches at a provincial school, comes to love a gifted pupil as the son he could never have, until the boy's worldly father arrives to claim him. The short novel in three parts is followed by five shorter stories. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.