Szilárd Borbély, whose debut novel "The Penniless" was a literary event in Hungary, Germany, and many other countries, wanted to dedicate his next major narrative work to Franz Kafka. The collection of fragments, published posthumously and originally intended for publication, derives its intensity from the author's passionate search for himself and his own voice. An essay on the significance of Kafka in contemporary Hungarian literature in general and in Szilárd Borbély's work in particular complements the volume. Kafka's son is a young Hungarian writer who is learning to find his home in writing. He refers to language as a graveyard that consumes the dead; he wants to write stories that "erase my own traces that I could leave between the words." Kafka as a brother, as a projection.