by Antal Szerb
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...
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...
“ON THE TRAIN everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice, with the back alleys.” This is our introduction to Mihaly a Hungarian businessman on his honeymoon in Venice. Mihaly has married his wife Erzi to escape from an adolescent rebellious nature and into the arms of conformity, part of th...
I wasn't enchanted with the first section, which sets up the adolescent relationships that are so important to the rest of the book. But I was rewarded for getting through that. Hard to categorize and unlike most of what I read, but it drew me in and kept me there to finish it off in a captivating a...
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