“W. G. Sebald, Thomas Bernhard, Christoph Ransmayr are relatives of this art. Of course this is a different art. But there is no difference in standard.” Élet és Irodalom
“Other Death is not simply a novel about a psychological breakdown, but is also a novel of the history of the recent past.” Kalligram Literary Journal
“It is one of those rare works that is capable, like a kind of stop-gap, of speaking at a high level of the actual present moment, in a distinctive voice, with a distinctive manner of seeing, and with new perspectives.” Litera
“Barnás’ novel renders perceptible a more general state when the hero cannot control his own state, beyond the daily routine, when some troubling internal change is taking place in side him, a change over which he has little grasp, and which he can neither direct nor even name. …. A book without hopes, but precise and beautiful.” Magyar Narancs
“Ferenc Barnás’ novel is the most profound, precise, and plausible novel of today’s Budapest (and also possibly today’s Hungarian and Central Eastern Europe). At the same time it is a crucial constat of what has become of our lives.” Danyi Zoltán füzete
“What really makes Barnás’ work deserving of attention is his ability to bring neurosis tending to mania to the surface as a linguistic and rhetorical manner of functioning.” Műút
“Ferenc Barnás’s most recent novel belongs to those rare books which depict our times in an original voice and with an individual vision.”Hungarian Literature Online