If we look at the work of Margita Figuli as a whole we cannot avoid noticing two separate phases. In the first, which is represented by her short stories up to 1940, the conflict of the principle of natural life with a hidden moral law is predominant. These short stories are concentrated in expression and style. The more the pole of moral law is withdrawn, the more precise, refined and artistic her style becomes (short stories from 1939 to 1940). The second half of her work is characterised by a deepening of its moral base (the tale "The Mountain People," the novella Three Chestnut Horses).
Ján Števček (1973)
Figuli's novel "Babylon," a romanticising and historicizing epic, a little bit of Kuprin intertwined with Flaubert, mixes biblical philosophy with Eros, love rhetoric with romantic pathos
. The author is renowned for great narrative skill and a sense for style.
Jozef Felix
