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The first edition of the novel was published in 1937, and was written by antal szerb. He studied hungarian, german and later english, obtaining a doctorate in 1924. Szerb also translated books from english, french, and italian, including works by. Journey by moonlight is a wallow in nostalgia but where marais embers looked only fondly back at the hapsburg empire and all it represented, szerbs novel is a yearning for findesiecle decadence, four decades too late.
Antal szerb s dreamlike story is a reckoning with freedom and responsibility, the pulls of love and destruction, and the ways that the past returns to be relived or rejected. Graduating in hungarian, german and english, he rapidly established himself as an outstanding scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of ibsen and blake, and histories of. Journey by moonlight by antal szerb the 1651st greatest. Journey by moonlight by antal szerb 2002 paperback. Full book journey by moonlight by antal szerb store. Buy journey by moonlight nyrb classics book online at low. Journey by moonlight english, hardback antal szerb. Discover book depositorys huge selection of antal szerb books online. He was twice awarded the baumgarten prize, in 1935 and 1937. Buy journey by moonlight nyrb classics book online at. Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century. Throughout the second half of the 1920s he lived in france, italy, and england, where he worked on his first book, an outline of english literature 1929.
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An nyrb classics original the trouble begins in venice, the first stop on erzsi and mihalys. That awful mess on the via merulana by carlo emilio gadda. Antal szerb performs a similar journey of descent in journey by moonlight utas es holdvilag, written in 1937, in the midst of another war. He is generally considered to be one of the major hungarian writers of the 20th century.
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