Carcass Remover

Zoltan Danyi was born in Senta (Serbia) in 1972. He is the author of a short story collection and several volumes of poetry and prose, including essays on the Hungarian philosopher Bela Hamvas. His two novels A doegeltakarito (The Carcass Remover, 2015) and A rozsakrol (About the Roses, 2021) have been highly acclaimed in Hungary. They are both translated into German also.

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'Zoltan Danyi's irate first novel The Carcass Remover is a literary event that has reached far beyond the borders of Hungary. ... Beneath every surface lies a sinister depth, and it is into these that Danyi mercilessly shines his light. A gaze one has to endure. He is a first-class novelist; above all, however, he offers us an urgent challenge in the face of Europe's breakdown.' Neue Zurcher Zeitung'The Carcass Remover is a perfect book of paradoxical beauty that deals with the ugly within us.' Suddeutsche Zeitung'The great success of The Carcass Remover is not entirely down to its aesthetic quality, but also its shocking timeliness, the permanent contemporary nature of history, its continual return, the death of culture, of humanity, of the myth of Europe. The fact that here and now we are also living in wartime.' Orsolya Bencsik, Muut'The beauty of the language with which a manic narrator wrestles his demons, chapter after chapter, is astonishing.' Literatur Spiegel'Zoltan Danyi has written a great novel.' Frankfurter Rundschau'This novel, awarded the esteemed Miklos-Meszoely Prize in Hungary, tells a tale of brutal violence and the drastic nature of bodily dysfunction ... in a highly refined way.' Deutschlandfunk Kultur'Literature does not lend itself to the process of working through traumatic experiences, of this much Zoltan Danyi is convinced. But it does lend itself very well indeed to its powerful description and reproduction. The Carcass Remover is the ultimate proof.' ORF OE1 Ex libri