Search for the chapter titled "The Night of Purification" (or similar). Read it three times. Once for plot. Once for symbol. Once with your eyes closed, feeling the text as vibration. That is how Szepes intended it to be read.
To understand El León Rojo , one must first understand its creator. María Szepes (1908–2007) was not a conventional novelist. Born Mária Papir in Budapest, she lived through the two World Wars and the Hungarian Revolution. She was a journalist, a screenwriter, and—most importantly—a practicing esotericist. el leon rojo maria szepes pdf