![]() ![]() Like the three other excellent Szabó novels that have been translated into English (see below), Abigail, too, explores themes of crossing thresholds, both personal and political. At the Matula, “this world of black and white, with all its severity, was a universe away from that outer world of deceit and betrayal, of base conduct, danger and death.”Ībigail was originally published in 1970 and is celebrated as Szabó’s most successful novel in her native Hungary. The school’s strict bubble would effectively erase whatever’s going on outside the grounds, sheltering and teaching at the cost of worldly knowledge. ![]() To Gina, the Bishop Matula Academy (a traditional, religious all-girl’s school) is no better than a prison - the girls are forced to dress in the same dowdy uniforms, and all tokens of the outside world are confiscated upon each students’ arrival. ![]() Fourteen year-old Georgina Vitay feels her life is over: her father, a decorated General in Budapest, has decided to send her to boarding school. ![]()
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