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Journey by Moonlight: Szerb, Antal, Rix, Len, Orringer, Julie

How could the story of Millicent Ingram, the charming, easy-going young American woman whose path crossed  5 Jun 2013 Written by Antal Szerb In his master work Journey by Moonlight, it darkens into a mode of apprehension that verges on the tragic. Here we  11 Sep 2010 Journey by Moonlight. szerb By Antal Szerb. I had no expectations in different societies was thought provoking – Szerb obviously was a very  i just finished reading journey by moonlight by antal szerb first published in hungarian in 1937 translated into english by len rix in 2000 what an intriguing  Pris: 144 kr. häftad, 2013. Skickas inom 5-7 vardagar. Köp boken Journey by Moonlight av Antal Szerb (ISBN 9781908968432) hos Adlibris.

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Antal Szerb performs a similar journey of descent in Journey by Moonlight (Utas és holdvilág), written in 1937, in the midst of another war. In this case, however, the land of the dead is not the wasteland of Europe’s ruined culture but the hinterland of one’s own memory, of one’s own lost youth and the tragedies that characterized it. Antal Szerb's dreamlike adventure, like Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, is an intoxicating, utterly individual mix of magic, madness, eros, and menace. In the words of the critic Nicholas Lezard, "No one who has read it has failed to love it." Szerb Antal's Journey by Moonlight, first published a few years earlier (in 1937), is similarly almost entirely blind to the present: set largely in Fascist Italy and Paris, there are occasional Mussolini references -- but they are of almost no account, and there is almost no awareness of events elsewhere in Europe. (It is perhaps not The masterwork of Antal Szerb, a celebrated Hungarian man of letters who is practically unknown in the English-speaking world, Journey by Moonlight follows a malcontent Hungarian businessman 'Journey by Moonlight' is the acclaimed classic by Hungarian writer Antal Szerb, and one of the best books I've read in recent years.

In addition to his critical writings, Szerb produced many works of translation, and published newspaper articles, essays, reviews, short stories, and novels, of which The Pendragon Legend (1934), Love in a Bottle (1935), The Third Tower (written in 1936), Journey by Moonlight (1937), Oliver VII (1937), and The Queen’s Necklace (1943) have Journey by Moonlight is a burning book, a major book.” —George Szirtes “A stealthy masterpiece…both comic and beautiful.” —The Telegraph “Wonderfully wry…We owe thanks to Len Rix, Szerb’s accomplished translator, for his part in raising from the dead a writer of such cool irony and historical sympathy.” —New Statesman Journey by Moonlight (Hungarian: Utas és holdvilág, literally "Traveler and Moonlight") is among the best-known novels in contemporary Hungarian literature. Written by Antal Szerb, it was first published in 1937.

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This essay is the introduction to the new NYRB Classics edition of Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb.. In August 1936, the thirty-six-year-old Hungarian writer Antal Szerb—acclaimed both for his fiction and for his influential History of Hungarian Literature—traveled to Italy for what he suspected would be the last time. Journey by Moonlight Antal Szerb Translated by Peter V. Czipott ALMA CLASSICS. alma classics an imprint of alma books ltd Thornton House Thornton Road Wimbledon Village We talked about everything including those special authors that mean so much and Antal Szerb was one that I had not heard of before.

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‘On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice …’ Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life. Antal Szerb performs a similar journey of descent in Journey by Moonlight (Utas és holdvilág), written in 1937, in the midst of another war. In this case, however, the land of the dead is not the wasteland of Europe’s ruined culture but the hinterland of one’s own memory, of one’s own lost youth and the tragedies that characterized it. Antal Szerb's dreamlike adventure, like Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, is an intoxicating, utterly individual mix of magic, madness, eros, and menace.

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Antal Szerb's dreamlike adventure, like Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, is an intoxicating, utterly individual mix of magic, madness, eros, and menace. In the words of the critic Nicholas Lezard, "No one who has read it has failed to love it." Home » Hungary » Antal Szerb » Utas és holdvilág (Journey by Moonlight). Antal Szerb: Utas és holdvilág (Journey by Moonlight) The year before this book was published, Szerb published A harmadik torony (The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy), a travelogue of a journey he made in Italy.

Antal Szerb (1901–45) was a Hungarian novelist, scholar, literary historian and translator whose works were greeted with widespread appreciation but who faced ever-increasing hostility and persecution because of his Jewish background. He tragically died in a concentration camp, beaten to death by camp guards, at the age of forty 2018-1-11 · Szerb Antal's Journey by Moonlight, first published a few years earlier (in 1937), is similarly almost entirely blind to the present: set largely in Fascist Italy and Paris, there are occasional Mussolini references -- but they are of almost no account, and there is … The masterwork of Antal Szerb, a celebrated Hungarian man of letters who is practically unknown in the English-speaking world, Journey by Moonlight follows a malcontent Hungarian businessman, A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.
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Antal Szerb - Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

He urged me to read Journey by Moonlight and sent me a wonderful review from The Guardian by Nicholas Lezard (28 July 2001) and it inspired me to read it.