In her final novel, The Anthill (1917), Margit Kaffka—the most vibrant and expressive female voice in Hungarian literature of the early 20th century—continues to explore the possibilities of female existence in a rapidly changing society: the limitations imposed by previous models and the opportunities opening up to new generations. Combining her own experience (in her youth, the writer studied in a convent much like the one described in the novel) with the conflict between two worlds, that of girls and that of nuns, Kaffka offers the reader a colorful, symbolic, and astutely observed portrait of a closed community confronted with the problem of choosing its future. The election of a new Mother Superior is accompanied by events no less dramatic than the election of a new Pope.