Journey by Moonlight
Published on 1. January 2002
304 pages
978-1-906548-50-6 (ISBN)
Description
"No one who has read it has failed to love it."—Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
"Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph
ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.More details
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Antal Szerb
Journey by Moonlight
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- PART ONE: HONEYMOON
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- PART TWO: IN HIDING
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- PART THREE: ROME
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- PART FOUR: AT HELLâ?TS GATE
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- Translatorâ?Ts Afterword
- About the Authors
- Available and Coming Soon from Pushkin Press Classics
- Copyright
