A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak A lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone ...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/20/melancholy-made-in-hungary-is-fuelling-bestsellers-across-the-globe-and-widely-misunderstood)