The Flower Show and The Toth Family, two novellas in one volume by Istvan Orkeny (1912-79), introduce to an English-speaking audience a Hungarian writer with a keen sense of the absurdities of modern life. In the 1960"s and 70"s, Orkeny"s vein of black comedy earned him the epithet "master of the grotesque" for the popular dramatizations of these and other novels.