"Janos Dragoman, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town of Kandor to visit three old friends. The three all have wives who are eager to be seduced by Dragoman, whose reputation precedes him. Through a series of flashbacks, covering his intellectually and sexually precocious schooldays, his memories of the life of Jews in 1944, and the 1956 Revolution, we learn that Dragoman inadvertently caused the massacre of six young colleagues.". "That was the past. The present offers fresh opportunities. But the streets are old and the human beings blemished. Having publicly accused his friend Aba of falsifying his past, Dragoman causes his death. Intentionally or unintentionally?"--BOOK JACKET.