THE SEAL CASTLE

We are acquainted with a black boxer who, for reasons that you will need to read the book to understand, sells his skeleton in advance to a marquis. Another character explains how to purchase cocaine at wholesale prices and sell it at the black market rate. The cast is remarkable, and it alone makes reading this book from cover to cover well worth it. This is the first of Laszlo's two dark and tragicomic period pieces: while The Seal Castle is set in Budapest, its companion, The Crab's Rhapsody, takes place in Paris, which was Laszlo's next stop on his unorthodox journey through life. Neither this book nor The Crab's Rhapsody bears any resemblance to Laszlo's subsequent works. The Seal Castle, with a heightened emphasis on the love story, would make for an excellent film. Read the book part. VIDEO