Review:
A writer of immense subtlety and generosity, with an uncommonly light touch which masks its own artistry ... Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers --Ali Smith
Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century. --Paul Bailey Daily Telegraph
'Szerb is a master novelist whose powers transcend time and language' NICHOLAS LEZARD --The Guardian
About the Author:
Antal Szerb was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. 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 English, Hungarian, and World Literature. His first novel, the satirical-philosophical The Pendragon Legend, 1934, was set in London and Wales. His acknowledged masterpiece, Journey by Moonlight, appeared in 1937. The Queen's Necklace was composed, together with a third novel, Oliver VII, amidst the wreckage of war: both were instantly banned. In 1945 Szerb died in a forced-labour camp in Western Hungary. A collection of stories and novellas (Love in a Bottle), and three volumes of his literary-critical essays, were published posthumously.
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