In Frivolities & Confessions, Szentkuthy said that his goal with Prae was “to absorb the problems of modern philosophy and mathematics into modern fashion, love, and every manifestation of life.”
 
Translated for the first time since its original publication in 1934, upon its 80th anniversary, Vol. II of this legendary and controversial Hungarian modernist novel is now at last available in English. Featuring an afterword by translator Erika Mihálycsa.