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Journey by Moonlight: Antal Szerb (Pushkin Press Classics) - Softcover

Buch 7 von 29: NYRB Classics

Szerb, Antal

 
9781805330240: Journey by Moonlight: Antal Szerb (Pushkin Press Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1805330241 ISBN 13: 9781805330240
Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

An early-twentieth-century classic -- the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia

"No one who has read it has failed to love it." -- Nicholas Lezard

Mihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the respectable family firm in Budapest, but as his gaze passes over the mysterious back-alleys of Venice, memories of his bohemian past reawaken his old desire to wander.

When bride and groom become separated at a provincial train station, Mihály embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome, where he must reckon with both his past and his future. In this intoxicating and satirical masterpiece, Szerb takes us deep into the conflicting desires of marriage and shows how adulthood can reverberate endlessly with the ache of youth.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Though of Jewish descent, he was baptised at an early age and remained a lifelong Catholic. He rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, through studies of Ibsen and Blake and histories of English, Hungarian and world literature. He was a prolific essayist and reviewer, ranging across all the major European languages. Debarred by successive Jewish laws from working in a university, he was subjected to increasing persecution, and finally murdered in a forced labour camp in 1945. Pushkin Press publishes his novels The Pendragon Legend, Oliver VII and his masterpiece Journey by Moonlight, as well as the historical study The Queen's Necklace and Love in a Bottle and Other Stories.

Len Rix was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in Cambridge. He is the translator of all Szerb's work published in English and his translations have been widely celebrated, earning him the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the PEN Translation Prize.

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An early-twentieth-century classic – the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia. Mihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the respectable family firm in Budapest, but as his gaze passes over the mysterious back-alleys of Venice, memories of his bohemian past reawaken his old desire to wander. When bride and groom become separated at a provincial train station, Mihály embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome, where he must reckon with both his past and his future. In this intoxicating and satirical masterpiece, Szerb takes us deep into the conflicting desires of marriage and shows how adulthood can reverberate endlessly with the ache of youth.

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Verlag
Pushkin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1805330241
ISBN 13 
9781805330240
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
299
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