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Siberian Garrison

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Rodion Markovits: Siberian Garrison

There was probably only one, unique moment in history when Hungary dictated world fashion in literature. And that was not due to one of our canonized writers, but a dilettante; a loutish philistine from Satu Mare.

Rodion Markovits (1888–1948) was considered as a literary Messiah, or at least as a circus spectacle, by many in Budapest after his novel Siberian Garrison had acquired international fame.

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