Original sentence: The novel features the romantic figure of Mihály, aloof and poetic but struggling to break with an adolescent rebelliousness which he tries to quell under respectable bourgeois conformism but also with the disturbing attraction of an erotic death-wish
Edited sentence: A highly amusing (and popular) Hungarian book from the late 1930s, in which we meet the romantic figure of Mihály, aloof and poetic but struggling to break with an adolescent rebelliousness which he tries to quell under respectable bourgeois conformism but also with the disturbing attraction of an erotic death-wish