Metropole

I love getting random books from flea markets based on their cover and them ending up being great finds. In this book Karinthy shows us the alienation of the metropole and modern society. The story is quite similar to the ones where a person finds themselves on a deserted island, but here we have this city's continuous traffic and rush that creates the isolation. And even though i expected the book to turn into a scifi or magical realism on how Budai found himself in this strange place, it was more a study of human resilience and creativity.