Antal Szerb
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...
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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.
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Birth date: May 01, 1901
Died: January 27, 1945
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Whatever I had expected of this book, they did not come true at all because this book turned out to be the most unpredictable read of 2020 so far. In a way, this book was a bit like going for a walk in the hills and suddenly being slapped across the head by a fish falling from the skies. And in a...
bookshelves: paper-read, one-penny-wonder, spring-2013, bedside, italy, hungary, betrayal, doo-lally, incest-agameforallthefamily, lifestyles-deathstyles, published-1937, summer-2013, translation, travel, teh-brillianz Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Helen Read from May 21 to June 13, 2013 Translat...
The first time I've heard about Antal Szerb was no more than two months ago. Since then, I managed to put my hands onto all the novels by Szerb translated into English, whose number equals to three.I had the luck to make a good catch while visiting an Oxfam charity shop in lovely Bath, UK. Bless the...
'Tell me,' he asked, with some embarassment, as we strolled along: 'you're a bloody German, aren't you?''Oh, no. I'm Hungarian.''Hungarian?''Hungarian.''What's that? Is that a country? Or you are just having me on?'Not at all. On my word of honour, it is a country.''And where do you Hungarians live?...
Translated from the Hungarian by Len RixOpening: On the train everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice, with the back-alleys.Only a few times a year the back cover epiphets match the inner contents, usually the talkingitup is entirely misleading. An incredible piece of writing that displa...
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