 I could not have imitated it more perfectly if I had tried.Anyway, it was my good fortune that it was conceived two years earlier, because there are so many similarities between the two that I would never have been so bold as to write Kazohinia had I read "Brave New World" first.” Although one prominent literary scholar in Hungary believes that Szathmári had probably heard or read about "Brave New World" prior to writing "Kazohinia", there is no evidence to suggest that in fact he had read the novel, whose Hungarian translation was published only after the author wrote "Kazohinia".Also, despite some overlapping themes and a mutual interest in describing the technology of a possible future, "Kazohinia" — set in the present rather than the future, and highly comic throughout — is a fundamentally different book.