Sunflower, Gyula Krudy's 1918 novel, sets turn of the century Budapest hustle and the timeless "peacetime" mode of the Hungarian countryside as backdrops for this sensually observed episode in Woman hood's ongoing ever-variable encounter with the male principle. A rich quintessentialized cast of characters offers a fivefold bevy of females variously engaged with a trio of males. World-weary proto feminist Miss Maszkeradi sojourns at her friend the introspective ingenue Eveline's country estate the provincial hetera Risoulette assists as they confront the amorous cantankerous hunk of Magyar manhood. Mr. Pistoli flanked by a duo of younger women the dangerous entrepreneurial gambler Ossuary and the hermit like country gentleman Almos-Dreamer. But this is also a novel of the land teeming with sites and relics of the Old World Goddess. This powerful ancient Deity illumines the women in Sunflower and so becomes the major character in one of the roundest and most fully realized works of GyulaKrudy's commending oeuvre.