More Than Meets The Eye

The end of Maróti's life sounds like a baroque tragedy:

"1933–1940. More than 600-page study on the lost city of Atlantis. Finished in German and translated into English, but never published."

Watching Europe descend into war while you retreat into an epic fantasy that no-one will read.

@bezt Astute.

And the Hungarian National Opera is a little over a hundred meters away. Several people told me the story of how the ruling class of Vienna told the builders that their opera could not be bigger than theirs. So, instead, they made it more ornate and built a gorgeous home for the ballerinas across Andrássy Blvd for spite (and probably to steal the best ballerinas). I stayed in the building adjacent to the opera for a week. I never tired of its lines. And you could hear rehearsals if you walked through the lobby.

Wonderful building.
I love Wiener Sezession and didn't know this. Tx!