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Based on the Hungarian writer Ágota Kristóf's play The Monster, this piece is a bleak fable about human desire and destruction.
A monster appears silently in a village. The terrified villagers resolve to destroy the unknown being. However, its intoxicating fragrance slowly seduces them all, replacing their fear with growing obsession. A young man Robert sees the true danger. He refuses to succumb and launches a determined campaign to exterminate the creature.
His actions lead to a final confrontation. At the end of the tale, the question remains: does Robert conquer the monster, or does its pervasive allure conquer the world through the enthralled villagers?
