Journey by Moonlight

Antal Szerb,Len Rix

ISBN 10: 1901285502 / ISBN 13: 9781901285505

Published by Pushkin Press 01/01/2002, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Journey by Moonlight
• Publisher: Pushkin Press 01/01/2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901285502
• ISBN 13: 9781901285505
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihály has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realizing that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihály "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.

About the Author

Antal Szerb was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. Graduating in German and English, he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English, Hungarian and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, was writtenin 1934. Journey by Moonlight appeared in 1937, followed in 1943 by The Queen's Necklace and various volumes of novellas. He died in a forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.