From an intellectual vision youth to reach a sentimental perception in middle age is the route that carried both Augustine and all the great men of history. No reverse. You do not go from a teenager to the philosophy of senescence lyricism; this is the only human, intelligent way.
It is vain to look for an exposure reading Augustine's philosophical system of church father, who barely a tenth of the book is dedicated. If we talk about their readings, their loves, of political events is to reposition things in a broader context. Mária Tompa writes in the foreword: "This is a series of reflections existentialist inspiration on the philosophy of history and religion (Written a few years after the beginning of existentialism and about five years before it spread through Europe !) ".
Choose the time of Augustine as a reference point allows you to better understand our time; thus, in this confrontation of two denominations, the reader gets a more accurate history-from Christianity to communism and the history of individuals vision.
It goes into the work of Szentkuthy as in all great works: at the beginning, in the middle or the end. He will always be there to greet us.
On the experimental side and scholarship of his work has sometimes been compared to Jorge Luis Borges.