The Black Ram represents a breakthrough in Balabán’s work. The author has successfully attempted a larger, internally composed novelistic work. It is the composition here that increases the urgency of the text, which has almost the character of a prayer or a curse. There is an alternation of different times and spaces, characters and situations, without compromising clarity or clarity. The reader is drawn by the relentless rhythm of the narrative into a ‘raw and crude’ world, populated by some ‘non-heroes’, but also a world filled with participation and the will to seek the fulcrum of human existence. The stylistic refinement and persuasiveness of Balabán’s expression make the book a reader-appealing work.

“The source of The Black Ram’s torment is ‘proven’ – the tension between the evanescent and its denial, which is achieved, of course, by fully accepting this earthly temporality.

He is a novelist to be reckoned with.”

— Josef Chuchma – critic