Mňačko`s book
Death is Called Engelchen is not a novel of heroes and characters. It is the internal moral conflict which is above them and of which they are only a part. The heroes and individual events are subordinate to this conflict, particularly when idea and construction are concerned. Maybe it is because everything here is told through a narrator, through a personal moral conflict, which gives the whole narration great dramatism. Mňačko`s book, precisely due to this central position of the narrator`s internal conflict, shows a rare singularity of construction and style.
Július Noge
